. Birds of Michigan. Birds. ZOOLOGICAT. DEPARTMENT. Genus AQUILA Briss. Aqiiila elirysaetos (Linn.). Golden Eagle. 66 15li ;?+9 (). Rare; one in our museum taken in Clinton county, and one from Northern Michi- gan; "taken occasionally in Southern Michigan, a rare straggler from the north " (Dr. M. Gibbs); one taken in Kalamazoo Jan. 1,1892 (R. F. Judson in O. and Vol. XVII, 1892. p. 9); A. H. Boies reports it from the Upper Peninsula and frcmi Hillsdale county; "not uncommon in the Gogebic region"' (H. Nehrling); Jerome Trombley has seen it at the mouth of the Raisi
. Birds of Michigan. Birds. ZOOLOGICAT. DEPARTMENT. Genus AQUILA Briss. Aqiiila elirysaetos (Linn.). Golden Eagle. 66 15li ;?+9 (). Rare; one in our museum taken in Clinton county, and one from Northern Michi- gan; "taken occasionally in Southern Michigan, a rare straggler from the north " (Dr. M. Gibbs); one taken in Kalamazoo Jan. 1,1892 (R. F. Judson in O. and Vol. XVII, 1892. p. 9); A. H. Boies reports it from the Upper Peninsula and frcmi Hillsdale county; "not uncommon in the Gogebic region"' (H. Nehrling); Jerome Trombley has seen it at the mouth of the Raisin Rivor in Monroe county; "taken in Kalamazoo county" (Dr. M. Gibbs); probably nests in the northern part of the state. Genus Bald Eagle, reduced. 154-;552 (5.*{4). Haliii'etus leiiooceplialus (Linn.). *Bald Eagle. Not rare, especially in the uninhabited regions of the north; "rave in Monroe but a pair have their nest on the Raisin River near its mouth " (Jerome Troml)ley); all months of the year; two in our museum killed in January, one from Ingham and the other from Shiawassee county; found common at Bay City by N. A. Eddy (O. and O., Vol. IX, p. 4); "Grand Traverse county" (Dr. M. L. Leach); "common in the Upper Peninsula" (S. E. White); "quite common in the Gogebic region of the Northern Pen- insula" (H. Nehrling); breeds; "a pair of young taken from nest at Byron in spring of 1892" (J. B. Purdy); "breeds in Cheneaux Islands, Mackinaw straits" (Dr. M. Gibbs); "breeds on Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); nests in tall trees, " using the same nest year after year" (C. J. Davis); eggs two, rarely three, nearly spherical, dirty white. The late Prof. W. K. Kedzie secured two of the young here in 1868. which he reared to matur- ity; "I have caught them alive in steel traps mounted on top of poles" (S. E. White). We have only these two eagles in United States. The
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