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a feeling of great respect, knowing how deep the love must be that could 

 call forth such an unwonted energy of mind and promptitude of action. — 

 E. E. H., Mickley, near Ripon, October 23rd., 1855. 



Two Earjles shot. — Last week a lad, named Kenneth Macdonald, in the 

 employment of Mr. Cameron Tallisker, Skye, whose exploits among Eagle 

 cliffs we have before had occasion to notice, succeeded in shooting two 

 Eagles, right and left. What makes the feat extraordinary, is that the 

 birds are of different species, one being a White-tailed, or Sea Eagle, and 

 the other a Golden Eagle."*' Macdonald discovered them preying upon the 

 carcass of a sheep; at his approach they rose simultaneously, and while 

 mounting rapidly upwards he fired right and left, and brought both the 

 birds down. The Sea Eagle is a magnificent specimen, perfect in every 

 point, and measuring no less than seven feet three inches from tip to tip. 

 The Golden Eagle was a younger bird; it measured six feet six inches from 

 tip to tip. — Inverness Courier, February 8th., 1856. 



FROM "the times." 



The Little Bustard. — In passing through Alford, in Lincolnshire, a few 

 days ago, I observed a very beautiful female specimen of this bird stuffed 

 in a druggist's shop; upon inquiry, I ascertained that it had been shot a 

 week or two before at Bilsby, near that town. As I had previously thought 

 that this bird was now quite extinct in these islands, I have determined to 

 send the fact to you for publication, for the information of those naturalists 

 who are as ignorant as myself. — Observer, January 29th., 1856. 



In a recent copy of your paper a letter appeared, signed "Observer," 

 noticing the capture of a specimen of the above species, under the idea that 

 it had become extinct in England. Although it is of rare occurrence, I have 

 known during the last twenty years of several Cornish examples, and about 

 two years since two were shot in this immediate neighbourhood, and a third 

 seen. One of the above individuals I bought at a game shop in Penzance, 

 and it was offered as a curious specimen of the Silver Pheasant, It was a 

 female bird, in very perfect plumage, and is now preserved in my Museum. 

 — Edward Hearle Rodd, Penzance, Feb. 1st., 1856. 



Observing by a letter in your impression of to-day that a specimen of the 

 Small Bustard has lately been killed in Lincolnshire, I venture to intrude 

 myself on your notice, and to state that a specimen of the Great Bustard 

 {Otis tarda of Linnseus) has recently (3rd. of January inst.) been taken in 

 the neighbourhood of Hungerford, where I reside, and just on the borders 

 of Wilts, and Berks. It is a male bird, and is a very fine specimen. — 

 W. H. Rowland, Hungerford, Berks, Jan. 29th., 1856. 



* I doubt this very much. — F. 0, MoKRis. 



