70 BOOTED EAGLE. 



on the wing, is only a summer visitant to Southern 

 Algeria. It breeds on ledges of rocks, and seems to 

 prefer the cliffs ' and open country to the forests. It 

 lays two eggs, longer and a little larger than a Buz- 

 zard's, and seldom so richly marked." 



The figure of this egg is from a drawing sent me 

 by M. Moquin-Tandon, who observes, — 'This egg was 

 sent to me from the Spanish Pyrenees, by a seller of 

 skins. I thought for some time that it belonged to the 

 Common Buzzard, or else the Rough-legged Buzzard; 

 but on comparing it with two drawings, quite recently 

 published by M. Badeker, pi. 1, fig. 3, I discovered 

 that I had been deceived." 



