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but the deep guttural note that it utters, when, believing itself 
to be in perfect security, it either circles round its dwelling 
or hunts about on misty November days. 
These two eagles screamed incessantly, both flying and 
sitting, and it was the first time that I had ever heard an eagle 
do so when at a carcass. After a while a third bird joined 
them, but soon left its comrades and came rushing down a 
few yards from our hiding-place. I killed it with my shot- 
gun, whereupon the Vultures, Black Kites, Ravens, and 
Magpies rose in affright from the ground and the neighbour- 
ing trees, and the two other eagles also sailed off to the 
depths of the woods in ever-widening circles. 
For two whole days I rambled through the preserves of 
the Pardo, but never again did I manage to see an eagle of 
this species, and it was in the pine-woods near the coast that 
I first got a distant glimpse of another similarly light-coloured 
bird. I also found in a low pine-tree a nest about the size of 
an Imperial Eagle’s, which, according to the Spaniard who 
was with me, belonged to the “ Aquila carmelita,” as this 
pale-plumaged bird is called. 
In no other part of Spain did I come across it, but when 
riding in Morocco through a valley, girt with rocky hills 
covered with dense bushes, I saw a light-yellow eagle fly 
slowly away close to the ground, about a hundred paces off, and 
one of my attendants observed another at a different place. 
I have now mentioned all the occasions on which I saw 
this doubtful species in the open, but I also noticed stuffed 
specimens of it in the collections at Madrid, Valencia, and 
Lisbon. These were generally in the same immature plumage, 
but some were darker. I could never quite make up my 
mind on the question, and therefore direct the attention of 
the next ornithologist who travels in Spain to the subject. 
Aquila adalberti or leucomela was discovered by Doctor R. 
