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and the following year at least three were shot in the 

 neighbourhood. The first at Minster, November, 1885, 

 a fine female, 3 feet in length, and 8 feet in the stretch of 

 wings. Soon after this another was shot near Eastwell 

 Park, and is now in the possession of H.E.H. the Duke 

 of Edinburgh ; this latter is a male, and a young bird. 

 Sometime after the last bird had been shot another was 

 seen the marshes, and it got away, but I find from a 

 letter which appeared in Land and Water, January 28, 

 1888, that a similar bird was shot by a gentleman at 

 Dover about the year 1885, and is now in the collection 

 of Mr. Walter Bates, of Fulham. A White-tailed Eagle 

 was captured in Eastwell Park on December 22, 1895 ; 

 and another appears to have been obtained about the 

 same time at St. Lawrence, Kent, if not the same bird. 



On March 21, 1906, Mr. E. Bartlett observed a large 

 White-tailed Eagle come up from Romney Marsh and 

 pass over in a northerly direction towards Mersham. It 

 was very cold at the time, and had been snowing all 

 the day. 



Genus ASTUR, Lacepede. 



GOSHAWK. 



Astur i:)aliimharius (Linnaeus). >S'.-ZV., i., p. 130 



(1766). 



The Goshawk is evidently a very rare bird in Kent, 

 and the only instances recorded are as follows : The Eev. 

 J. Pemberton Bartlett (1844) states that it is " not 

 common. A good specimen was lately shot in a wood 

 near Sprinfield Minnis, Kent." There is a Kentish 

 specimen in the Exeter Museum, the bequest of the Rev. 

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