WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. 



HALI^TUS ALBICILLA. 



Family Falconid.e. Genus Hali.etus. 



Erne — Sea Eagle. 



Among the towering and inaccessible cliffs in the 

 wildest parts of the Hebrides, the Sea Eagle most 

 commonly rears its young. No longer is this bird, 

 once abundant in England, now seen soaring away to 

 its eyrie among the beetling cliffs around our coasts, 

 for the Eagle, with us in England and Wales, is now 

 an extinct bird. Nevertheless, in the autumn and 

 winter the White-tailed Eagle frequently straggles 

 down to our eastern counties, and numerous instances 

 are to hand of birds shot when the cold weather has 



