33 3 
Mr. R. B. Sharpe’s Catalogue of Accipitres. 
examples of this species that have come under my personal 
observation. 
The geographical distribution of A. rufonuchalis is, as I 
have already observed, somewhat more limited than that of 
A. clang a ; the most northerly locality for A. rufonuchalis 
with which I am acquainted is the neighbourhood of Dantzic. 
Like A. clang a it migrates southward in winter; and from Yon 
HeuglnPs remark, quoted above, it would appear to extend 
its migrations as far to the south as that species. The Norwich 
Museum possesses a specimen from Nubia and another from 
Beyrout, the former being the most southern and the latter the 
most eastern locality for this Eagle that I have personally veri¬ 
fied; the most westerly specimen that I have seen is one from 
Switzerland, which is preserved in the Museum at Brussels. 
A. rufonuchalis is a decidedly less numerous species than 
A. clang a, and has of late years become remarkably scarce, 
much more so than was formerly the case. 
The nearly allied A. hastata appears, as stated by Mr. 
Sharpe, to be limited to the Indian peninsula. 
The only remaining species of the genus Aquila is A. wahl- 
hergi y respecting which I have merely to mention that Mr. 
Sharpens remark, “ Hab. The whole of Africa,” appears to me 
to be too sweeping. The Norwich Museum possesses speci¬ 
mens from Bissao, the White Nile, Abyssinia, and Nubia, 
which are the only localities for this species with which I am 
acquainted to the north of the Equator; whilst to the south 
of the Line, I am not aware that it has been obtained except 
in the localities mentioned in Mr. Sharpens edition of Mr. 
Layard's f Birds of South Africa/ at p. 36, viz. Caffraria, 
Kuruman, Mossamedes, and on the river Cunene, and also 
in Damara Land, if, as I think most probable, it be an in¬ 
dividual of this species, which is cited as from that country 
under the title of “ Aquila clang a, Pallas, No. 23,” in the 
Supplementary Catalogue of the Accipitres in the Leyden 
Museum, 15*. 
* 
* Since writing the above I have observed that the occurrence of a 
second Damara example of this Eagle is recorded in the 1 Journal fur 
Ornithologie ’ for 1876, at p. 308. 
