. British birds with their nests and eggs . UJ 1 c< LJ QUJ h- i- O CL CO The Spotted Eagle m in its stomacli; it weighed three and a half pounds. The writer saw and examinedthis beautiful specimen in Messrs. Pratts shop ; it was exactly similar in plumageto the two obtained in Cornwall which he had also seen, and is also figured byMr. Thorburn in Lord Lilfords book. Although the two young birds of whichthe portraits are given by Lord Lilford are of about the same age, they differconsiderably in plumage ; the Colchester bird being much darker, and with fewerof the light spots than the Sudbou
. British birds with their nests and eggs . UJ 1 c< LJ QUJ h- i- O CL CO The Spotted Eagle m in its stomacli; it weighed three and a half pounds. The writer saw and examinedthis beautiful specimen in Messrs. Pratts shop ; it was exactly similar in plumageto the two obtained in Cornwall which he had also seen, and is also figured byMr. Thorburn in Lord Lilfords book. Although the two young birds of whichthe portraits are given by Lord Lilford are of about the same age, they differconsiderably in plumage ; the Colchester bird being much darker, and with fewerof the light spots than the Sudbourne specimen, which Lord Lilford states is thefinest example of the spotted stage of plumage that he had ever seen. But headds that the third Eastern Counties specimen, which was shot at Leigh, nearSouthend, in Essex, November 3rd, 1891, and of which his artist, Mr. Thorburn,also made a drawing, was very nearly as beautiful. Ornithologists are* deeplyindebted to Lord Lilford for the fine series of portraits of the Spotted Eagle, forbesides
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