GOLDEN EAGLE. 105 



tip of lower mandible 2^, its depth at the base 1^%; 

 tarsus 3J; middle toe to the claw 2/^ > ^^^ ^^^^ H- 



Male, from North Berwick. Mr Stevenson's bird is 

 rather larger, and agrees with the above, but its colours 

 are more uniform, and generally darker ; and the tail, 

 which is very dark brown, exhibits but very faint in- 

 dications of bars. 



Female, from Argyllshire. The general colour is 

 similar to that of the male ; the edge of the wing with 

 less grey, and nearly of the same tint as the hind-neck; 

 the wing-coverts and inner secondary quills more dis- 

 tinctly margined and tipped with brownish- white. The 

 upper tail-coverts are light greyish-brown, and the base 

 of the tail-feathers, more especially of the three outer, 

 is white. 



Length 3 feet 2 inches ; wing from flexure 2 feet 3 

 inches ; <tail 1 foot 2 inches ; bill along the back 2}^ 

 inches, to the tip of lower mandible 21, its depth at the 

 base 1^ ; tarsus 4, middle toe to the claw 2J, its claw 



The wings are long, reaching to about two inches of 

 the end of the tail, and rather rounded, of twenty-five 

 quills, the third primary longest, the fourth almost 

 equal, the second a little shorter, the first considerably 

 shorter than the second. 



I have here also to add a few particulars respecting 

 the eggs of the White-tailed Sea- Eagle and the Golden 

 Eagle. An e^g of the former species, from Orkney, 

 now in the Museum of the University of Edinburgh, 

 is yellowish-white, without spots, of a regular oval 

 form, 3^ inches in length, 2^ in breadth. Another, of 

 the Golden Eagle, in the same collection, and brought 



