50 HALI.EETUS ALBICILLA. 



be the last to disappear ; but each inland ' Craig-an-Eulah ' will 

 soon be an empty name ^ 



§ 65. One. — Shetlands, 1847. Prom Mr. Graham's Collec- 

 tion, through Mr. Tuke. 



On inquiry made in 1848, I find that this egg was brought from 

 Lerwick by a gentleman who told me where it was taken ; and others 

 gave me the name of the adventurer who climbed to the nest. On or 

 about 19th June, 1849, I saw an Eagle here, flying straight away, not 

 sailing in circles as they more commonly do. It went towards Scal- 

 loway, and I saw it down. The nest on the Noup was that year said 

 to be inaccessible. The Golden Eagle is not in Shetland. 



§ 66. 0/^^.— Sutherlandshire, 27 April, 1848. 



Received from a correspondent, who states that there were two eggs 

 in the nest from which the hen bird was shot ; and from its being so 

 grey, it was supposed to be very old. The nest was similar to that of 

 a Golden Eagle, but close to the sea. There was part of a salmon on 

 the top of the rock near it, which no doubt had been brought by the 

 male. The other egg was sent to a gentleman said to be connected 

 with the British Museum. They had not Ijcen sat on more than eight 

 or ten days. In 1849, 8th June, Mr. Edge and 1 saw a White-tailed 

 Eagle flying towards the stack from which this egg had been taken 

 the preceding year. 



§ 67. T'lWJO.— Caithness, 23 April, 1849. "J. W. ipse." 



Hewitson, ' Eggs of British Birds,' ed. 3, pi. iv. fig. 2. 



These two eggs I took out of the nest on a headland, from which, 

 in 1848, I brought the two young birds, which are now alive at Mr. 

 C. Clarke's at Matlock^. On 21st AprO. I visited the headland, but 



1 [The above paragraphs, like those which precede the enumeration of the speci- 

 mens of Golden Eagles' eggs, were written in 1853 for Mr. Hewitson's use, and are 

 here printed from the original notes in my keeping. As in the case just mentioned, 

 much of the information they contain is repeated in the accounts of the particular 

 nests to which it refers ; but believing that everything relating to the history of 

 our native breeds of Eagles cannot fail to be interesting, that fact has not induced 

 me to withhold them here. In another place in Mr. Wolley's notes is a suggestion 

 that the " Willow-Cragg," mentioned by Mr, Aubrey in the passage above quoted, 

 may probably be a corruption of the Celtic " Craig-an-Eulah " (more properly 

 Craig-an-Iolair), or Eagle's Crag. — Ed.] 



2 [As stated above (p. 46), Mr. Wolley had been in hopes tliat these Eagles 



