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FALC0NID7E. 
Ti A P TO RES. 
FALCONW/E. 
SPOTTED EAGLE. 
SILVER EAGLE. 
Aquila N^evia. 
PLATE V. 
The appearance of two of these birds in Ireland in 
] 845, one of which was shot, was first made known by 
Mr. Davis of Clonmel, and by him communicated to Mr. 
Yarrell, who has introduced it in his supplement as a 
British Bird. 
In the “ Zoologist” for 1846, Air, Weaver of Birming¬ 
ham states that he saw a bird of this species in confine¬ 
ment on Valentia Island on the west coast of Ireland, that 
it was well known there as the Silver Eagle, and that a 
pair of them had bred regularly on the rocks on the island. 
The Spotted Eagle is met with in most of the European 
countries, and is said to build its nest on high trees, lay¬ 
ing two eggs. The egg which I have figured is from the 
collection of Mr. Wolley. Others, which have been most 
liberally intrusted to my care from the collections of Mr 
H. Walter and Dr. Frere, are rather less, and marked with 
blotches of purple and two shades of brown, and much 
resemble eggs of the common buzzard. 
