FROM SPAIN. 487 
V. 
THE “STEIN” EAGLE (Aquila fulva) AND 
THE SPANISH IMPERIAL EAGLE (Aquila 
adalberti). 
Havine already treated of the “Stein” Eagle, I can only 
add the few short notes that I have collected concerning its 
occurrence in Spain. 
There it is much rarer than I imagined, for although that 
country is so well provided with high mountains and rocks, 
and seems to offer it splendid places of residence, one is never- 
theless much mistaken in expecting to find it everywhere. 
I never met with it in the plains, and in many of the 
mountains it occurred either very sparingly or not at all. 
On the well-known range of Monserrat, for instance, where 
the towering precipices would afford it excellent nesting- 
places, I saw no “Stein” Hagles, and ‘even the herdsmen 
could tell me nothing about them. 
In the royal park of the Pardo at Madrid one appeared 
near a carcass, but only circled once round the place and then 
immediately flew far away. In the neighbourhood of Murcia 
rise some barren bright yellow mountains perfectly devoid of 
vegetation, and there a friend of mine found a nest on a low, 
easily accessible cliff; but though he waited a whole day for 
the return of the old bird, he only saw it cruising in the 
distance. 
Isolated nests of this eagle exist in the Sierra de Ronda; 
a certain proof of this being that I received from a peasant a 
young bird in the down, just taken from a nest in that 
