Birds of Prey. 
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in Britain on about ten occasions. It is an 
inhabitant of South-eastern Europe and ex- 
tends to Central Asia and even to Eastern 
Siberia. The Lesser Spotted Eagle (A. 
pomarina) is found in Central and Southern 
Europe, and it is this form which might have 
been expected to visit Great Britain, but has 
not been identified as yet within our limits. 
The present species is very little larger 
than some of the Buzzards, and may be 
recognised by its uniform brown adult plumage, 
and by the tail, which is perfectly uniform 
underneath. Young birds are remarkable for 
the tawny spotting on the wings, whence the 
name of* Spotted ’ Eagle is derived. Its food is 
also like that of a Buzzard, consisting of 
frogs, snakes, lizards, and insects. The 
nest is placed in trees in swampy forests. 
The Larger Spotted Eagle. It is a large structure of sticks and is lined 
with green leaves or fresh green grass. The 
eggs are two in number, very rarely three, and measure about two-and-three-quarter 
inches in length. They are small editions of the egg of the Golden Eagle. 
The Sea- Eagles are to be recognised from the Golden and 
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Spotted-Eagles by their bare feet, and the absence of feather- 
WHITE-TAILED 
SEA-EAGLE. 
( Haliactus albicilla.) 
ing on the tarsus. 
The white tail is a 
distinguishing char- 
acter of the adult 
Sea-Eagle, and the 
young birds have a 
white tail mottled 
with brown. In 
most of its former 
breeding haunts in 
Great Britain, the 
White-tailed Eagle 
has become exter- 
minated, but a few 
The White-tailed Sea-Eagle. 
