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Birds. 



I quote from Mr. Yarrell's Supplement, to which I have already alluded, the 

 following particulars. 



" This Eagle, very similar in its appearance to our well-known Golden Eagle, but 

 almost one third smaller in size, inhabits the Apennines and other mountains of 

 centra] Europe. It is le petit Aigle ou Aigle tachetS of the Animal Kingdom of Baron 

 Cuvier, who mentions that it was so tractable as to be employed in Falconry, but would 

 only attack small or weak animals, and was otherwise deficient in courage. M. 

 Vieillot includes this species in his Birds of France, and mentions that it preys upon 

 pigeons, rats, and particularly upon ducks, from which latter circumstance it had been 

 called anataria. It builds on high trees, laying two whitish eggs, slightly streaked 

 with red, and it feeds on small quadrupeds and birds. 



The Spotted Eagle. {Aquila Ncevia). 



" This species has been killed in Belgium, and is included by MM. Meyer, Brehm, 

 and Naumann in their histories of the Birds of Germany ; it is found also in Russia 

 and Siberia, but not, I believe, in Denmark, Sweden, or Norway. 



" South of the countries of Europe first mentioned, this Eagle is found in Provence, 

 according to Polydore Roux and M. Schembri ; and M. Savi includes it in his Birds 

 of Italy. M. Malherbe says this species inhabits the centre of Sicily. One nest was 

 discovered, containing two Eaglets and a mass of bones and skeletons of rabbits and 

 reptiles; but that which created the greatest surprise was to find, underneath this large 

 nest seven nests of the Tree Sparrow, containing eggs and young birds ; and these 



