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Other ; but it seldom enters the Baltic or goes far up 

 the Mediterranean" (Howard Saunders). 



CASE 13. 



THE GOLDEN EAGLE. 



Order, Accipitres. Family, FalconidcB, 



I am afraid I cannot lay claim to knowing any- 

 thing about this grand species, from the fact of its 

 being hardly in evidence in any part of Great 

 Britain south of the Lowlands of Scotland. 



On such a question as the Golden Eagle, I don't 

 think I can do better than afford you what 

 information I can by quoting from Howard 

 Saunders' " Manual of British Birds " : " About two 

 centuries ago it bred in Derbyshire and Wales, and 

 almost within the last hundred years in the Cheviots 

 and Lake District. . . . To the Lowlands of 

 Scotland the Golden Eagle is even now not an 

 unfrequent visitor in the cold season ; but its 

 breeding - places are confined to the Highlands 

 and the islands on the western side, where, owing 

 to the protection afforded by many of the proprietors of 

 deer forests, its numbers, severely thinned in former 

 years by grouse-preservers and sheep- farmers, have 

 to some extent recovered. In Ireland only a few 

 pairs remain, in the north and west. 



In regard to nesting- habit, the same author says : 

 "The nest, generally placed on the ledge of a craig 



