APPENDIX 
Order RAPTORES. 
Spotted Eagle, vol. i. p. 13. 
July 1850. I received tlie following additional information from 
Mr. G. Jackson (gamekeeper to the Earl of Bantry), of whose correct- 
ness as to the species I have no doubt. His statement is : — “ Last 
year (1849), a very young bird was brought to me, by a country-boy, for 
sale, which I, not having then heard of the spotted eagle, thought was a 
young golden one. I declined buying it, but the bird was purchased 
by the innkeeper at Glengarriff. As it became older, and the plumage 
more mature, I saw that it was not the golden eagle ; it was a beautiful 
bird, but not much more than half the size of that species. The 
description of the spotted eagle in your work is perfectly applicable 
to it. Before I knew this, it was sold to a tourist for £3 ; the bird 
was bred in one of the mountains here [Cork], called Hungry Hill.” 
In a letter which I had from Hr. Harvey, of Cork, dated February 
16, 1850, he mentions that the Messrs. Parker have lately seen about 
their residence in the neighbourhood of that city, “ a small eagle, with 
yellow bands on his wings,” which they believe to be A . navia. The 
series of spots on the wings of this species would probably have a 
banded appearance. 
Dunvegan Castle , Skye, October 1850. It is not improbable that the 
spotted eagle has occurred in this island. On my questioning Mr. 
Pack (who has been resident here for fourteen years, and eleven of them 
as gamekeeper) respecting the birds of Skye, he described a spotted 
eagle — though he had never heard of a species being so called — having 
been killed by one of the shepherds of the late Mr. Macleod, of 
Orbost, about the year 1840. Soon afterwards, he himself saw 
another, and subsequently, within a short time, either a second bird 
or the same individual again. The size he does not accurately remem- 
ber, though he recollects that it was liker to the golden than the sea 
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