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which Mr. Sharpe appropriates (I venture to think, errone¬ 
ously) to the Steppe-Eagle, as to which question I would refer 
to my remarks in f The Ibis '* for 1873, p. 99. 
The most westerly locality assigned by Mr. Sharpe to the 
Imperial Eagle is Central Europe,” which I am disposed to 
think is probably accurate, although Mr. Dresser remarks that 
f ‘in Southern France, according to Jaubert and Barthelemy- 
Lapommeraye, it has occurred several times; and on referring 
to the plate published by those gentlemen, there appears no 
doubt that the species represented is the present, and not the 
White-shouldered or Spanish Imperial Eagle.” My copy of 
the f Eichesses Ornithologiques du Midi de la France/ by the 
authors whom Mr. Dresser quotes, does not contain a plate 
of the Imperial Eagle; and the description there given does 
not appear to have been taken from a French specimen, only 
one such adult example being mentioned by M. Jaubert and 
his colleague, which was in a private collection at Bayonne, 
and which they appear not to have personally examined; I 
therefore do not consider it by any means certain that this 
species has really occurred in France, or that the French 
specimens referred to it may not, in fact, have belonged to 
Aquila adalberti , in which case the very few stragglers re¬ 
corded in Mr. Dresser's work as having been obtained in 
Pomerania and Silesia are probably the most western known 
examples of the true Imperial Eagle. Mr. Sharpe does not 
refer to the occurrence of the Imperial Eagle in North-eastern 
Africa ; but a summary of what is known on this head will be 
found in Mr. Dresser's article on this species. 
Mr. Dresser figures a fine adult pair of Imperial Eagles, 
the female* of which, through the kindness of Mr. W. E. 
* Mr. Brooks has favoured me with the following graphic account of 
the capture of this specimen :—“ It was rather a barren, open, sort of 
country where I saw her perched on a low half-dead tree. I made two or 
three attempts to get within shot j hut she always ducked her head and 
flew before I was within a hundred yards. On the last occasion she began 
to soar a little, and then took a steady flight to the west at a height of 
about two hundred yards. I kept her in view with my glasses, and at last 
saw her shoot to the ground with closed wings. As she knew a Euro¬ 
pean so well, I handed my gun, loaded with BB, to my native attendant, 
