Mr. R. B. Sharpe’s Catalogue of Accipitres. 217 
Brooks, now forms part of the collection at the Norwich Mu¬ 
seum. But that collection also contains another specimen, the 
locality of which is unfortunately unknown, which has a still 
greater development of white on the scapulars—in fact, nearly 
as much as is represented in the figure of the adult bird given 
im Mr. Gould’s f Birds of Europe/ 
Mr. Dresser’s excellent article on this species contains much 
interesting information respecting it, gathered from various 
sources; but it may be desirable to call attention to some 
valuable notes on this Eagle, as observed in Turkey, to which 
Mr. Dresser has not referred; these are from the pen of MM. 
Alleon and Vian, and will be found in the f Bevue et Magasin 
de Zoologie' for 1869, p. 108, and for 1870, p. 83^. 
Dr. Bree, in the first volume of the second edition of his 
( History of the Birds of Europe/ at p. 70, also gives some 
interesting additional particulars respecting the Imperial 
Eagle, supplied to him by Mr. A. S. Cullen of Kustendji; and 
at p. 96 of the same volume he figures, under the name of 
“ Striated Eagle/'’ two specimens sent to him from Kustendji 
by Dr. Cullen, which, so far as I can judge from an ex¬ 
amination of the skins, are immature examples of the Im¬ 
perial Eagle, but which Dr. Cullen, for reasons quoted by 
Dr. Bree at pp. 65, 66, 67, 97, and 98 of his first volume, 
affirms to be specifically distinct f. 
enjoining him to put off his dark jacket and turhan. Having a light- 
coloured blanket with him, he tied a large knot at one corner, and making 
use of this temporary cloak, which hid the whole man and his gun, he 
proceeded to stalk her: as he neared the place she flew up from the long 
grass and perched on a low dead tree, and allowed him to get within easy 
shot. After she was shot we went to the spot from which she had risen 
and found a Coracias mdica, with most of the body eaten; I did not think 
such a large bird would have taken such small prey.” The circumstance 
mentioned by Mr. Brooks of this large Eagle pouncing on a Roller seems 
to me to be very remarkable and worthy of record. 
* These valuable papers have been already alluded to in ‘ The Ibis ’ for 
1870, p. 60, and for 1871, p. 418. 
t An instance of an Imperial Eagle having been kept in confinement 
for seven years “without losing the striated plumage of the young bird ” 
is recorded by Messrs. Danford and Haf vie Brown in ‘ The Ibis ’ for 1875, 
p. 294. I think there is little doubt that in this case, and in another 
