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many of those which visited Yorkshire in the autumn and 

 winter of 1903-4 took up their abode on the moorlands, and 

 on Seamer Moor they were observed quartering the ground 

 and hovering like Kestrels ; two that were captured had 

 remains of voles and rabbits in their crops, but on some of 

 the Cleveland Moors individuals were detected whilst in the 

 act of killing and devouring Grouse. My taxidermist tells 

 me that in the crop of a Buzzard which he preserved he 

 foimd a quantity of flesh and feathers of this game-bird ; 

 others have been seem to capture and carry away game ; 

 in Farndale one was shot while killing a Grouse ; on Swainby 

 Moor another was killed as it rose from its quarry, that proved 

 to be a freshly killed and warm hen Grouse ; yet another 

 has been seen to carry off an old Grouse and clear every 

 particle of flesh off its bones at one meal, whilst one bold robber 

 ventured into the vicinity of a keeper's house on the edge of the 

 moors, where it raided the domesticated pigeons. 



GOLDEN EAGLE. 

 Aquila chrysaetus (Z.). 



Casual visitant, of very rare occurrence. 



The first mention of the Golden Eagle as connected with 

 Yorkshire is in Dodsley's " Annual Register," 1804, where 

 it is stated that a bird of the Eagle kind was shot on 29th 

 November 1804, at Stockfield [Stockeld (?)] Park, near 

 Wetherby, by Mr. Cummins, gamekeeper to the Countess 

 of Aberdeen, in the grounds near the house, and was secured 

 alive. This specimen is also mentioned under the heading 

 of Golden Eagle in the late Henry Denny's catalogue of the 

 animals occurring near Leeds, published in 1840. 



Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote : — 



Aquila chrysmtus. — Golden Eagle — Arthur Strickland reports that 

 one has been killed in the East Riding, and one specimen in the North 

 Riding ; it was shot near the Tees on sth November 1833, by T. L. 

 Rudd, Esq., of Marston [Marton]-in-Cleveland ; it weighed 12 lbs.. 



