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greedily upon raw meat, preferring it to birds or 

 animals, either dead or living. It is very sluggish and 

 inactive even when urged by hunger. It generally 

 drinks a gulp or two of water after eating. The only 

 cry I have heard it utter is a harsh croaking." 



Our figure of this egg is from a drawing sent me 

 by M. Moquin-Tandon, with the following remarks: — 

 "I bought this egg of a Paris merchant in 1837. 

 Great diameter seven cents two milles, (two inches and 

 seven eighths,) little diameter five cents one mille, (two 

 inches.) Surface rather rough; ground-tint heavy white, 

 scarcely azured, and shaded with dirty russet. Schinz 

 has given a representation of this egg, pi. 37, fig. 2, 

 very exact in size, form, and colour. Thienemann (pi. 

 46,) has given a drawing of good size but too white 

 in colour — probably a variety." 



The Rev. H. B. Tristram, in his "Catalogue of Eggs 

 for 1857," says of this bird: — "This rare and magnificent 

 bird appears to prefer the forests to the cliffs for the 

 purpose of nidification. It occurs very sparingly in 

 Algeria, but is well known to the Arabs as distinct 

 from the Golden Eagle. The eggs seem scarcely ever 

 to have any but the faintest clouding, or a few obsolete 

 spots." 



The adult male and female have the plumage gen- 

 erally of a rich glossy blackish brown, darker below, 

 except on the abdomen, which is reddish. There is a 

 large conspicuous white spot on the scapulary feathers. 

 The vertex, occiput, and nape of a lively red. Tail 

 irregularly waved with ashy grey; iris whitish yellow. 



Young birds are more variegated with russet, and 

 the white mark on the scapularies indistinct. Iris light 

 brown; toes livid yellow. 



There arc specimens in the Norwich Museum. 



