. British birds with their nests and eggs . nal yellowish-white spot; the spots on thewing-coverts being small on the top of the wing and increasing in size until thelower feathers are broadly tipped with whitish; on the nape the feathers areelongated, and some of them are tipped with fulvous; tail and primaries darkpurplish brown; bill bluish horn at the base, dark horn at the tip; irides hazel ;cere and feet yellow; claws dark horn; under parts brown, streaked with rufous;thighs covered on the outside with yellowish feathers, streaked on the top withrufous brown; on the inside dark purplish
. British birds with their nests and eggs . nal yellowish-white spot; the spots on thewing-coverts being small on the top of the wing and increasing in size until thelower feathers are broadly tipped with whitish; on the nape the feathers areelongated, and some of them are tipped with fulvous; tail and primaries darkpurplish brown; bill bluish horn at the base, dark horn at the tip; irides hazel ;cere and feet yellow; claws dark horn; under parts brown, streaked with rufous;thighs covered on the outside with yellowish feathers, streaked on the top withrufous brown; on the inside dark purplish brown; tail and secondaries tippedwith greyish. The bird in the fourth 3-ear figured by Lord Lilford is a rufous brown allover, some tawny feathers on the nape, back, secondaries, primaries, and tail,darker brown with a purplish reflection, some of the lower wing-coverts havesmall spots of yellowish white on their tips; under parts and thighs tawny brown. The length of the male Spotted Eagle is about two feet, the female is Golden Eagle i i The Golden Eagle. 113 Familv—FAL CONID/K. Golden Eaglk. Aquilii c/irysactics, LlNN. AT the present day this fine Eagle, the Black Eagle of the Scotch Highlands,(as also of many other parts of the world), that makes its home in almostall the mountainous regions of the Old World and in some of the New, is onlyto be found as a resident in a few remote places in the Western Highlands, inthe Outer Hebrides, especially the islands of Lewis and Harris, while one or twoeyries may still be left in the west of Ireland. It was being rapidly exterminatedby shepherds, game-preservers, and collectors, included also, and paid forwhenever slaughtered, in the proscribed list of vermin, until a few of the Scotchland-owners resolved to protect it, and on their estates it is said to be recovering itsnumbers. Two centuries ago the Golden Eagle was still nesting on Snowdon, inNorth Wales, and on the peaks of Derbyshire; and within the last hund
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