. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . high, apellet of shot had lodged somewhere in the head andcaused these fits, from which the bird never entirelyrecovered, and died in 1879. On Eebruary 27, 1891, I heard from Mr. H. Eield,of Kettering, that a Sea-Eagle had been shot atOakley on the 24th, and sent to him for preservationon the 25th. I at once sent a competent person toKettering, and obtained the following details:—The Eagle was shot by a man in the employment ofMr. Northen, tenant of Oakley Lodge, who hadnoticed it about all the afternoon of 24th. Owingto the dense fo
. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . high, apellet of shot had lodged somewhere in the head andcaused these fits, from which the bird never entirelyrecovered, and died in 1879. On Eebruary 27, 1891, I heard from Mr. H. Eield,of Kettering, that a Sea-Eagle had been shot atOakley on the 24th, and sent to him for preservationon the 25th. I at once sent a competent person toKettering, and obtained the following details:—The Eagle was shot by a man in the employment ofMr. Northen, tenant of Oakley Lodge, who hadnoticed it about all the afternoon of 24th. Owingto the dense fog that prevailed it did not go to anydistance, so he sent one of his men across the fieldgently, as the bird could see him, and this man creptup close to it under the hedge, so shot it through theneck, and broke one wing. Mr. Field informed methat this bird was a female, and measured 3 ft. 4 in. intotal length, 8 ft. in expanse of wings, and weighedabout 8 lbs. It was eventually obtained for preserva-tion by Sir E. de Capell Brooke, the owner of the farm. i^-e-^z^ C^ccayte^ AXB NEIGHBOURHOOD. 7 upon Avhich it was butchered (cf. Zoologist, June1891). Mr. B. Wentworth Vernon has informed me thathe watched two Eagles (in all probability of thisspecies) soaring high in air over his park at StokeBruerne near Towcester, for nearly two hours, inMarch or April 1891. I have received other notices of Sea-Ea2:les havingbeen shot in and near the borders of our county, butthey are all somewhat vague, and some of them with-out doubt refer to the Osprey {Pandion lialiaetus).The White-tailed Eagle formerly bred in severallocalities in Scotland and Ireland, in both of whichcountries 1 have often met with it. I have a veryfine female of this species alive here, which was takenfrom a nest in the county of Waterford in 1854, andis in perfect health and fine plumage at this time(December 1893). The White-tailed Eagle is a muchmore indiscriminate feeder than the Golden, and willnot reject carrion
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