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79. Aquila clanga Pallas. [Bastaardarend]. 



We possess a young specimen, killed in October 1891 at 

 Schoonheten near Raalte, province Overijssel, and presented 

 in March 1892 to our Museum by X. F. C. Bn. Bentinck. 



80. Aquila pomarina Brebm. [Schreeuwarend]. 



We possess the skeleton of a female, captured May 1855 

 at Het Loo, Gelderland (van Oort, Cat. Ost. Ois. 1907, 

 p. 53, Aquila pomarina — a). This bird lived till 1856 in 

 the Zoological Garden at Amsterdam and was then presented 

 to our Museum. Schlegel has given in his » Vogels van 

 Nederland" under the name of Aquila clanga, its description 

 and measurements (wing 17 pouces = 460 mm.) and the 

 latter show, that the bird belongs to pomarina. 



81. Haliaetus albicilla (L.). [Zeearend], 



A young female was shot 21 November 1907 in the 

 Anna Paulowna polder and purchased for our collection. 

 The Museum possesses further ten specimens killed in Hol- 

 land ; among them are three adult ones with white tails, 

 two males in our old collection, one, only labelled Holland, 

 purchased in 1858 from Mr. van Lidth de Jeude, the 

 other killed near Lisse in 1837 and presented by C. J. 

 Temminck (N os . 1 and 2 of Schlegel's Catalogue) and finally 

 a female shot 6 January 1860 near Noord wijk, making part 

 of the collection van Wickevoort Crommelin (4 — 4). 



82. Circaetus gallicus (Gmelin). [Slangenbuizerd]. 



We possess no specimen shot in our country. This species 

 is a very rare straggler to the Netherlands. It has been observed 

 twice in Zuid-Holland and once iff Noord-Brabant. 



83. Archibuteo lagopus (Brünnich). [Ruigpootbuizerd], 



We received only one specimen, a female, shot 25 Fe- 

 bruary 1908 at Egmond-Binnen, Noord-Holland. This species 

 is a regular winter visitor to our country. In the collection 



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