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bird, who was on the spot in a moment, was prevented from taking his share in the prize. On 

 another occasion, during a chase of houbaras by Falcons, we noticed that the latter refused to 

 seize the prey ; the reason of this being that a Bonelli's Eagle suddenly dropped down from 

 above, killing the houbara in an instant. In such cases one of these birds will allow a rider to 

 approach almost close to him ; but he is more shy towards those on foot." 



Colonel Irby informs me that, according to M, Favier, it is the most common Eagle near 

 Tangier, where it is resident, though some migrate north in February and return in July ; and 

 Mr. O. Salvin, who met with it in Tunis, writes (Ibis, 1859, p. 182) as follows: — "While 

 staying at Sousa, in the Regency of Tunis, in February, an immature bird of this species was 

 brought to me by an Arab, half-dead. We saw others in the Regency, where it appeared to be 

 more numerous than further to the westward. In the Souk-Harras district I did not meet with 

 it, except on one occasion, when I found a decaying specimen lying on a heap of rubbish 

 opposite the door of the hotel of that town. A pair frequent, and, according to an informant 

 at Tunis, annually breed near, the ruins of Utica ; one of these birds I saw when visiting the 

 site of that city." Mr. Tyrwhitt-Drake says (Ibis, 1867, p. 423) that it sometimes breeds at 

 Tetuan, and also at Cape Spartel. It is met with far south in Africa ; it has been recorded from 

 Senegal ; and Mr. Andersson (B. of Damara Land, p. 7) writes as follows : — " I have obtained 

 examples of this species at Objimbinque, the mouth of the Onanes river, Ball's Port, the Omaruru 

 river, and Ondonga. Its flight is heavy ; but when it has once risen to a certain height it soars 

 powerfully." 



It is also recorded from South Africa by Mr. E. L. Layard, who says that one (a bird 

 identified by Mr. Gurney as belonging to this species) was shot at Wynberg, this being the only 

 instance on record of its occurrence south of the equator ; but there appears to be some doubt 

 as to whether the bird in question really was this Eagle, for Mr. Gurney says (Ibis, 1868, p. 138) 

 he thinks it not impossible that it may prove to be a female of Spizaetus spilogaster. 



To the eastward it is found as far as India ; but Mr. Swinhoe says that it has not been met 

 with in China. Severtzoff does not include it in his work on the ornithology of Turkestan ; and 

 I do not find it recorded in the outlying districts before reaching India proper, where, according 

 to Dr. Jerdon (B. of India, i. p. 68), it is found "from the Himalayas to the extreme south, but 

 only in hilly or jungly districts in general, though it is occasionally seen in cultivated country 

 and near tanks, if not very distant from some hilly region. I have observed it chiefly on the 

 Neilgherries, on the crest of the Western Ghats, in Central India, and occasionally in the 

 Carnatic and Deccan." Mr. A. O. Hume met with it in Sindh, and writes (Stray Feathers, i. 

 p. 158) as follows : — " One, two, or more pairs of this fine Hawk Eagle are to be met with about 

 every large lake in Sindh, making terrible havoc amongst the smaller water-birds, and carrying 

 off wounded fowl before one's eyes with the greatest impudence. They breed in the province, 

 and, inter alia, in the interior of the Khelat Hills, in places where perennial streams issue from 

 these. I killed a fine female in the interior of the Nurree Nai at the end of January from her 

 nest, which then contained two young ones, just able to fly. I saw another nest higher up the 

 same stream, placed, like the first, on a shelf of a rocky cliff overlooking the water ; this was 

 inaccessible, but it contained, I could see, young birds. Another nest I found in the Gaj, which 



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