. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . s of the occurrence ofthis species in Northamptonshire, but do not considerthem sufficiently definite or supported by evidence tobe worthy of particular record. I am glad to say that the Golden Eagle still breedsin many parts of the Highlands of Scotland, and inseveral localities is protected by the owners andlessees of deer-forests and grouse-shootings. I hadfrequent opportunities of observing the habits of thisspecies during my nine years tenancy of a wild dis-trict in Inverness-shire, in which they regularly never saw the
. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . s of the occurrence ofthis species in Northamptonshire, but do not considerthem sufficiently definite or supported by evidence tobe worthy of particular record. I am glad to say that the Golden Eagle still breedsin many parts of the Highlands of Scotland, and inseveral localities is protected by the owners andlessees of deer-forests and grouse-shootings. I hadfrequent opportunities of observing the habits of thisspecies during my nine years tenancy of a wild dis-trict in Inverness-shire, in which they regularly never saw them ca[)ture or even pursue a bird ofany sort, and have the best of reasons for believingthat their principal food in Scotland consists of theBlue Hare and Rabbit. The specimen referred to at the commencement ofthis article was most obligingly presented to me byMr. Ralph Nevile in February 1891. It is, in myopinion, in the plumage of the second year. Mr. , of Durham, to whom I sent this bird forre-mounting, assured me that the flesh had not been. A XD NEIGHB O URHO OB. W removed from the back, or the whig and spite of this neglect, he has made an excellent jobof the restoration, and this Eagle has the appearanceof a freshly-killed bird. 2. WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. SEA-EAGLE. Ilaliaetus cdhiciUa. This Eagle, which may almost be classed as aregular winter visitor to the eastern coasts of England,has occurred several times to my knowledge inNorthamptonshire in immature plumage, A specimenstiifFed at Bulwick Park, Wansford, the seat of Tryon, was killed, as the late Thomas Tryon,Esq., assured me, near that place. I have no recordas to date, but it is at least forty years since I firstsaw it there, and it had then been stuffed for someyears *. There is another specimen (stuffed) atBurghley House, Stamford, which was shot close tothat place many years ago. Another occurrence ofthis species in Northamptonshire with Avhich I amacquainted was in January
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