THE GOLDEN EAGLE 



{a QUI LA CHRYS^TUS) 



TT is certainly matter for surprise that a bird 

 as big as the Golden Eagle has managed to 

 retain its place in our avifauna, and we must 

 attribute the circumstance to the inaccessible 

 character of those remote haunts it now affects. 

 Little more than two hundred years ago the 

 Golden Eagle bred in Derbyshire and Wales. 

 Willughby says that this bird in his day bred on 

 the cliffs of Snowdon, and he actually describes an 

 ejv'm in Derbyshire in 1668. Wallis, a century 

 later, publishes the information that it bred on the 

 Cheviots ; whilst Jardine, in 1838, is able to give the 

 cliffs of Westmorland and Cumberland as recently 

 its breeding-place. Probably the bird formerly 

 bred in many parts of England and Wales ; but 

 persecution has done its work, and we shall never 

 see the Golden Eagle an inhabitant of the Lowland 

 shires again. In the Lowlands of Scotland the 



