164 Golden and Sea Eagles. — Bald Eagle. 



18 inches in circumference at the base. The diameter of each 

 hom at the base is 6 inches in one direction, and 5 inches in 

 the other. They have not the fluted character so conspicu- 

 ous in the horn which I found three years ago, at Copford, 

 noticed at p. 437, vol. vii. but they have the punctures so com- 

 mon to the bony portion of horns in general. 



In both instances the remains of the elephant were found 

 associated with those of the ox. At Copford, a vertebra and 

 the cuneiform bone of the right fore foot of the former, were 

 discovered, subsequently to those of the ox above-mentioned. 

 And, with the horns recently discovered at Clacton, was found 

 a perfect elephant's tooth, 11 inches in length, and 3 inches 

 wide upon the grinding surface, and eight inches in depth. 



As no doubt the horns themselves, (of which not the least 

 vestige was retained), were of a proportionate thickness and 

 length to these gigantic remains, what a formidable crea- 

 ture must have been the ox, or wild bull, which ranged through 

 the ancient forests! — John Brown. — Stanway, Dec. 21, 1837. 



[The fossil remains of the ox are more or less abundant throughout the 

 whole of the county of Essex, but the dimensions of the horns recorded a- 

 bove, are greater than in any specimens we have had an opportunity of ex- 

 amining. — Ed.] 



Golden and Sea Eagle, Aquila Chrysaetos and A. albicilla. 

 In the more recent works on British ornithology, there is not 

 any notice of eyries, either of the golden or sea eagle, in Eng- 

 land at the present time ; but, from my having seen two birds 

 of one or other of these species, (though not sufficiently near 

 to be specifically determined), on the 13th of July, 1835, about 

 the English lakes, they most probably breed in that quarter. 

 One appeared near the eastern extremity of the vale of New- 

 lands, not far from Keswick, and the other at Crummock Wa- 

 ter. Willughby states that there was an eyrie of the sea eagle 

 in Whinfield Park, Westmoreland ; and Latham, on the au- 

 thority of Dr. Heysham, remarks, that the same species bred 

 near Keswick. It may be added that in visiting all but three 

 of the lakes of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire, 

 (Lowes-Water, Ennerdale, and Wast-water) in the month of 

 July, 1835, I saw eagles on one day only. — Wm. Thompson. 

 Belfast, Jan. 1838. 



Bald Eagle, Haliaetus leucocepJialus, Savig. — Wilson, in 

 his American Ornithology, (vol. ii. p. 310, Jardine's ed.) ob- 

 serves respecting this bird, — "of the precise time of build- 

 ing, we have no account, but something may be deduced 

 from the following circumstance. " — Here follows the de- 

 scription of an ascent to a nest in a pine tree, near Great 

 Egg Harbour, in the month of May ; when it was found 



