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One instance of its occurrence in the East Riding was 

 reported by Arthur Strickland to Thomas Alhs, and is included 

 in his Report at the head of this chapter. 



Captain Edward H. Turton of Upsall Castle, Thirsk, 

 states (MS.) that a specimen in his museum was obtained 

 about Christmas 1851, on Court Moor, Kildale, near Stokesley, 

 in the North Riding, by his father's keeper. 



A beautiful young female, in the first year's plumage, 

 was captured in December 1861, at Skerne, near Driffield, 

 in the East Riding, when in the act of eating a hare, by a man 

 called Kemp, gamekeeper to Mr. A. Bannister. It was 

 skinned and set up by Alfred Roberts of Scarborough, who 

 said it weighed 8 lbs. 50ZS. This bird is now in the fine collec- 

 tion of the Norwich Museum, to which it was presented by 

 Mr. Francis Hoare, formerly of Tranby Park, near Hull, 

 to whom, the late W. W. Boulton and Mr. J. H. Gurney, I 

 am indebted for the particulars. 



In the winter of 1850-51, one was shot at, and wounded 

 in one wing, by Mr. Tom Fewster at Helwath, Harwood Dale, 

 about ten miles from Scarborough. It was captured alive, 

 little the worse, and taken to Sir John Johnstone of Hackness 

 Hall, who presented it to Squire Hill of Thornton. The 

 bird recovered the use of its wing and lived in captivity until 

 1864 ; when captured it was evidently immature, having 

 black bars at the end of its tail and white at the base ; the 

 tail gradually darkened in colour, only becoming uniformly 

 black in its last year. The specimen was preserved by Graham 

 of York, and is now in the collection of Mr. Hill of Thornton, 

 the son of its original owner (Prodham, Nat. 1887, p. 84). 

 This is the example described by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke (" Birds 

 of Yorkshire," Trans. Y.N.U.), as shot at Thornton in 1864. 



The latest Yorkshire Golden Eagle is an immature male 

 bird killed at Kettlewell, near Starbotton, on the upper 

 reaches of the Wharfe, on 17th November 1902, by Mr. J. W. 

 Mallinson, river-watcher, who informs me {in litt.), that, while 

 in pursuance of his duties, his attention was attracted by a 

 noise in a tree, afterwards found to have been caused by the 

 Eagle knocking a steel rabbit trap, that was fastened to its 



