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birds were bred here ; according to Macgillivray, the White Tailed 
Sea Eagle usually chooses for its retreat the shelf of some lofty 
precipice overhanging the sea, and there in fancied security forms 
its nest, and reposes at night. Individuals have been known to 
remain attached to the same spot for many years, nor does it appear 
that this bird ever relinquishes its residence to its young, but drives 
them off to find a habitation for themselves ; for this reason most of 
the wandering individuals that have been shot at great distances 
from the breeding places, have been young or immature birds. The 
eggs are two in number; when the breeding season is over the 
young disperse, and though these birds are not of social habits, 
several individuals may often be seen at no great distance traversing 
the hills or shores, where their plunder (chiefly carrion) is to be 
obtained. What a pity it is to think how these birds are destroyed. 
Tf left undisturbed we might have them breeding in the Dover 
Cliffs. As the Sea Eagle has so often been mistaken for the Golden 
Eagle, it may as well be here stated that there is an unfailing test 
by which they may be distinguished. The foot of the Golden Eagle 
has the tarsus clothed with feathers; and each toe has small 
reticulated scales to the last joint, which has three broad scales ; in 
the White Tailed Eagle, on the other hand, the tarsus is only 
partially covered with feathers, and the whole of the toe is covered 
with broad scales. 
The Osprey—Pandion haliaétus—is a very rare bird in Kent, 
and I can findnorecord of its appearance of late years; the only 
specimen I know the history of, was obtained by the Rey. B. Austen, 
from the Isle of Thanet; indeed, it isarare British Bird anywhere, 
and mostly confined to the North of England. Mr. Gordon knows 
of another specimen obtained at Rainham Creek, near Faversham. 
The Peregrine Falcon, one of the most beautiful birds of the 
tribe, still breeds in the Cliffs west of Dover, and here numerous 
land slips have occurred, forming an undercliff of great beauty, 
known as The Warren, and Little Switzerland. This broken ground 
extends from Shakespeare’s Cliff to near Folkestone ; here the cliff is 
some 500 feet above the sea. The broken masses of fallen cliff 
have in many cases preserved their perpendicular outline towards 
the sea front; between the standing and fallen masses there is often 
broken ground, covered with bushes, thorns, and brambles, some 
three or four furlongs in width, a very paradise for the Naturalist 
and Botanist. Colonel Fielding has described these Dover Cliffs as 
presenting, during the first week in July, a very animated 
appearance : ‘‘ Hundreds of Herring Gulls are nesting there, and the 
young ones may be seen about their nests, attended by the parent 
birds. For some reason or other, probably for the want of suitable 
' ledges, the Herring Gulls do not appear to nest on the abrupt faces 
of the cliffs, but in spots where land-slips have occurred, and where 
