332 Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes on 
With reference to the western range of Aquila clang a, I 
may mention that I recently had an opportunity of examin¬ 
ing the two immature Spotted Eagles killed in Cornwall, and 
recorded in the ' Zoologist 9 for 1861, pp. 7311 and 7817, and 
found them both to be examples of this species. 
It seems certain that the larger Spotted Eagle has occurred 
both in France and in Spain; and I am indebted to the 
kindness of Mr. Howard Saunders for permission to quote 
the following remarks, from a letter with which he has 
favoured me, on this subject:— 
“ I was very much hurried during my visit to the Bayonne 
Museum; still I think I may state pretty positively that the 
two Spotted Eagles there, as also the one in the Bordeaux 
Museum, killed in the environs (all three young birds), are 
of the larger form, much larger than the small Pomeranian 
bird.Speaking from memory, I should say that the 
spotted specimen in the Yalencian (Eastern Spain) Museum is 
a very large female. As regards the Seville and Jerez specimens 
I am, after this lapse of time, barely sure of their existence. 
But of this I am sure; all those that I recollect seeing in 
South Europe were young, and, I fancy, all of the large form. 
I am sorry I did not take measurements/'’ 
The southern range of this Eagle is also somewhat more ex¬ 
tended than has been recorded by Mr. Sharpe; it is a regular 
winter visitant to Egypt - *, and it extends its migrations still fur¬ 
ther southward. Yon Heuglin, in his f Systematische Ueber- 
sicht/p. 6,has a note, of which the following is a translation:— 
“Aquila ncevia, Linn., is very common on the great lakes in 
Lower Egypt. In March and October it is travelling, often 
in companies of as many as ten individuals, throughout the 
whole of North-eastern Africa ; the variety A. clang a (Pall, 
and Naum.) is as frequent as the genuine A. n(evia”-f. 
Last year I saw an adult pair of A. clang a living in the 
Zoological Gardens at Antwerp, which I was assured had 
been brought from Sennaar, and which are the most southerly 
* Conf. 1 Rambles of a Naturalist,’ by J. H. Gurney, jun., pp. 132 
and 244. 
t Conf. Von. Heuglin’s i Orn. Nordost-Afrik&’s,’ vol. i. p. 47. 
