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indicates one habit, doubtless fatal to its existence, 
but it is also said to be very partial to tortoises which 
it carries high up into the air and drops on a rock or 
stone to break the armour with which they are covered. 
The well-known story told by Pliny will be remembered, 
how the bald head of the poet A%schylus being mis- 
taken for a stone by one of these birds, it dropped a 
tortoise from on high and caused the death of the 
poet. 
Case X. 
commences the Eagles, amongst which will be noticed 
the great Wedge-tailed Eagle of Australia (also skele- 
ton and eggs), and our own Golden Eagle found in 
some parts of Scotland—where its numbers appear to 
be increasing—the latter represented by a grand series, 
from Europe, North Africa, Asia, and North America ; 
here is also a fine species known as the Imperial 
Eagle. In 
Case X]. 
will be seen the beautiful Tawny Eagle from Mogador, 
the Abyssinian, and Cawnpore Eagles, and others ; 
and in 
Case XIl. 
the last of the true Eagles, the Spotted and long-legged 
Eagles. 
On the last two shelves we commence the Hawk 
Eagles, so called from their short wings and more 
fully-developed tails ; of these there are a large num- 
ber of species from widely-dispersed localities. Vzsaé- 
tus fasciatus, the first, is a handsome bird known 
as Bonellis’ Eagle, it is widely-dispersed all over 
Southern Europe and Asia and North Africa, and 
not unlikely some day to be met with in England. 
