224 Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes on 
remark :—“ I have no data as to its occurrence in Northern 
Africa, and am unable to say how far south those birds which 
are found passing the Bosphorus on their journey southward 
extend their range." It is certainly remarkable that African 
specimens of this Eagle should be so rare in collections as 
appears to be the case; I only recollect to have examined 
two, both, apparently, adult males : one of these is from 
Abyssinia*, and is preserved in the Museum at Brussels; the 
other was obtained in or near Damara Land by the late Mr. 
C. J. Andersson, by whom it was presented to the Museum 
at Norwich, where it still remains*f\ 
Besides the continent of Africa, the district of Upper Pegu 
must be added to the localities quoted by Mr. Sharpe for this 
species ( vide ‘ Stray Feathers' for 1875, p. 25). 
I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. W. E. Brooks for 
the following anecdote relating to A. nipalensis as observed 
in India :—“ One of my men once shot a large female A. 
nipalensis , which, he said, had struck down a fox and partly 
eaten it; in the capture it was assisted by two other birds of 
the same species.Hodgson, in one of his notes, describes 
taking portions of a jackal out of the crop of one of these 
birds." 
Some curious and valuable observations on the habits of 
this Eagle are also contained in Prjevalsky's Mongolian notes, 
to which I have already referred [vide c Ornithological Mis¬ 
cellany,' pt. 6, p. 144). 
The next three Eagles which I propose to notice are closely 
connected with the three last to which I have alluded, but are 
still more closely connected with each other. These are:— 
A. rapax (or, as it has been more frequently called, A. neevi- 
oides)', A. albicans , which Mr. Sharpe and most other autho- 
* Dr. A. Brehm’s Aqidla raptor (‘Naumannia,’ 1855, p. 13) appears to 
me, by the description given, to be probably identical with this species, 
although quoted by Mr. Sharpe as a synonym of A. rapax ; Brehm’s ex¬ 
amples were obtained in the Bogos country, where, however, he only 
appears to have occasionally met with it. 
t When I edited Mr. Andersson’s notes on the birds of Damara Land, 
I was under the impression that this specimen was a dark variety of A. 
rapax , and therefore did not enumerate it as distinct from that species. 
