ON ORNITHOLOGY. 429 
III. 
To the Spotted Eagle (Aquila nevia) I can only devote a few 
words, as I have but seldom had an opportunity of studying 
it. It is unobtrusive and not very striking, and therefore 
often escapes observation, although the whole of our country 
lies within the area of its distribution. 
In its wanderings, which extend far to the west, it passes 
through the more western provinces of the kingdom com- 
monly enough, avoiding the high mountains, for large plains 
are its special hunting-grounds. 
In Lower Austria, Moravia, and Bohemia it is a regular 
and tolerably frequent visitor, and if we were to observe 
more carefully, this interesting bird would be much oftener 
seen, and it would be possible to give more precise data 
about its journeyings and the localities in which it takes 
up its quarters. 
With us the Spotted Eagle only breeds in Galizia, Central 
and Southern Hungary. In Germany it inhabits the 
northern and eastern provinces. My own observations of it 
have been confined to Hungary and Slavonia. I-first saw it 
on the island of Adony, south of Pest : there the bold robber 
was circling over a heronry, followed by the frightened cries 
of the old birds. Nowhere did I find it in the great auen 
south of Mohdcs and north of Draueck, for its true dwelling- 
places are the dry woods among the fields and plains. 
This bird was, as might have been expected, very common 
in the Keskend wood, which lies to the south-west of Mohacs, 
and is a few miles distant from the Danube. That is a 
locality which exactly suits it, as,it is an oak wood of good- 
