WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. 3 



subsequently kept in confinement for some years, but 

 accidentally escaping-, was shot a few days afterwards by 

 a gamekeeper in the neighbourhood." No less than 

 three of these fine bii'ds, two females and one male, 

 were shot in different parts of the county during the 

 winter of 1855-6 ; and in the following winter of 1856-7, 

 between the months of ISTovember and January, three 

 more were obtained on the coast. Two of the latter were 

 killed at Winterton, near Yarmouth, a very favourite 

 locality, and nearly at the same spot ; the last specimen 

 being shot wliilst hovering over a rabbit warren, and 

 on examination of the contents of its stomach, (besides 

 a stoat) was found to have been feeding on the remains of 

 a large whale, which had just previously been stranded 

 on the Winterton beach. In January, 1859, one or two 

 of these eagles were observed at Horning and other 

 parts of the county, and in the severe winter of 1860-1, 

 a fine -pair frequented the lake at Holkham for some 

 weeks, where, in spite of the ravages they committed 

 amongst the wild fowl, the noble owner of the estate 

 would not allow them to be disturbed. A fine young 

 male was killed at Hickling on the 23rd of March, 

 1861 ; and about the same date in the following year, a 

 female was shot at Westwick. This was, no doubt, the 

 same bird that had been seen only a few days previously 

 at Northrepps, near Cromer, where Mr. Gurney's keeper 

 observed it sitting on a tree, perfectly indifierent to the 

 mobbings of a flock of jackdaws. In the spring of 

 1863, an immature bird was shot near Fritton decoy, 

 in the adjoining county ; and in ITovember of the same 

 year, another was observed, for a few days, in the 

 neighbourhood of Wymondham, in Norfolk. 



Mr. Lubbock^ states that on one occasion, in very 



* " Observations on the Fauna of Norfolk, and more particularly 

 on the District of the Broads." By the Eev. E. Lubbock (1845) 

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