THK Onl.Oins'l". 2\)'t 



a full-sized red S(|uiirel w liidi liad Ik'cii such a surrace. ai-e deuied terrilorv t>f 



but slightly niutihited. It has been ree- this nattue in the Peninsular State, 



orded from Iron Mountain, U. P- Oet. - As soon as records can Ite regularlv 



20, '92. S. E. White recortls the bird made in May and June it will be fair to 



from Kent County ami Maeinae Island. consider the Golilen Eagle a resident 



We ean safely say that this Hawk is but as long as the eai»tures range frou) 



(luite generally distributed over our Novemlu-r to March only we nuist doulit 



state l)oth spring and fall; and it is the proj)riety of recording it as breed- 



e(|ually fair to assert that it is very iiig. 



rarely or never seen within our l)ound- h ^ld E.v(;i.k: WiirrK-iii:.\i>i:i> K\(ii.i:. 

 aries in June. .Inly and August. Col- liUuretus leucoccjihnlm. (Linin. This 

 leetors of ^Lichigan i<now iK.tliing of its majestic liii'd is eomi)aritively well 

 *'»^'^- known to all veteran coUectors and 

 GoLOEx Ea(;i-k, Aqnilti c/iriji^di'los hunters, foi'.although it is nowgeuerally 

 (Linn). The earlier lists do not (mu- a straggler, oi-, perhai)s, we may say, 

 iiraee this Eagle as a Michigan species. migrant, or transient in Michigan. south 

 Sager. l^HH and Miles ISfJO both omit <»f the 4:^d ]»arallel. still it 5s simmi often 

 it in the (ieologieal Report of the State. enough, more ])articularly in the 

 I). D. Hughes records the capture of autumn, to be looked upon as a liird of 

 two spt>cimens. Many records have even our southern boundai-y. I liave 

 reached me which 1 feel unsafe in giv- • heard so many stories about Eagle's 

 ing, for I am aware that the ei-ror is nests within a few miles of this city 

 not rarely made of mistaking the im- that I do not feel like disj)uting the as- 

 mature (total brown) ])lumage of the seitions: still all t)f the reported nesting 

 Bald Eagle for the (rolden. This is so sites which I have looked up have prov- 

 common a mistake that I will nuMilion en to be de.serted. Tiiere is no doui)t 

 a mark of ideiUity sc^ that youi- reader-; that the Hald-headed Eagle once reared 

 will not fall into the same erroi'. In it-; young about the lakes of the interior 

 the Golden Eagle the tarsus, which is "f the extreme southern i)art of the 

 exposed in the Bald Eagle, is feathered '^iJitt^ :i^ it is now foinid breeding at the 

 to the toes. north. Butler in his -Birds of Indiana' 

 This bird though a rare straggler says that this Eagle is still locally dis- 

 from the North, has lieen taken often trilnited in that state, and report-; that 

 enough in various parts of the State, to il has been found nesting in six conn- 

 tlie extreme Southern boi'der. to con- t""^- 



vince us thatit is <piite well distributed V«'inig were taken in Ingham Comity 

 in its wanderings. Bntlei- in his -Birds Michigan and the birds raise.l to matur- 

 (.f Indiana'-eredits it as a •winter vis- ity by Professor W. K. Ked/.ie of the 

 itor" in that state. Agri<-ultural College. At the north the 

 One authority gives it th.' probability '''•"'•■^ :"'• "'"" l<"""i> :""' numerous in- 

 of nesting in* our Upper Peninsula. stances of nesting are recorded. As an 

 which seems reasonable when we learn illustration of the variath.n in tlie nest- 

 that this Eagle is known to be a re.i- ing time of l)irds in dilTerenl localities 

 dent in Maine, Xew Hami)shire an.l "'"' b'll'»"ing notes are olTered: In 

 Veimont. None of these states extend ^'"•^'•<•il. IWH two full-grown young liald 



, , ,,. , . , •, Eagles were .-hown me in conlincment 



as far north as Michigan: however it '^ , , ,. ... ... . , ,,., 



- on the Indian Kiv<-r. llorid:i. U lien 



must be borne ill mind thai Ih.-re are „e .-onsider the time n-.piire.l to hat.-h 



many mountain sections in New Eiig- die cgg-^ aiul bring the nestling-; to tins 



lin.l xvl., .;,.■,- III.' Km"-)''^ wIk. Mii'f.T :Ml\:incc(| -lirn-. at lca>( twelve to four- 



