314 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT. 
Aquila chrysaetus. Gorpen Eacrer. 
Morris (Ast. of Brit. Birds, vol. i., p. 15), records the 
occurrence of one near Eaton Hall, previous to 1845. No 
particulars are given, and as so many reported specimens of 
the Golden Eagle turn out on investigation to be of the White- 
tailed species, I think further evidence is necessary before we 
admit it, without question, as a bird of our district. 
* Haliaetus albicilla. WaHtre-raILep Eacte. 
BROCKHOLES says: ‘“‘I saw and shot at one, wounding it 
badly, some years ago, at Leasowe. This bird was afterwards 
found dead on a neighbouring field.” 
His Grace THE DvukKE oF WESTMINSTER has recently 
presented to the Grosvenor Museum a fine immature specimen, 
which was obtained some years ago on the Eaton Estate. It is 
possibly the one of which a note was inserted in the Field 
(January 31st, 1863, p. 98), and there said to have been shot 
on January 5th, 1863. 
Sir H. B. Ropertson has a specimen in the Palé collection, 
shot on the Berwyns, Merionethshire, near the Denbighshire 
border, in 1863 [T.R.] 
** Accipiter nisus. SPARROW-HAWK. 
Common throughout the district. In Wirral “ resident and 
common. This hawk always makes its own nest here. If this 
be robbed, a second is occasionally built; but generally the 
second laying of eggs is placed on any old nest which is 
sufficiently large. If robbed a second time, a third set of eggs 
is sometimes laid. I once found a third laying of eggs on some 
leaves which had accumulated in a fork of a tree.” (Br. p. 4.) 
Mr. Ruppy tells me he has taken two sets of eggs from the 
same nest within a month. 
Milvus ictinus. Kite. 
A fine specimen was shot at Bruen Stapleford, near Tarvin, 
by Mr. JosepH BurGeEss, on May 3oth, 1892, and is now in his 
possession at Altrincham. 
Mr. GarLaAND informed Mr. NewsteabD that an immature 
specimen was shot in September, 1888, while in the act of 
eating a Pheasant; it was not preserved. At the same time 
another was seen by Mr. GARLAND, but not shot [R.N.] One 
was seen at Oakmere in the winter of 1888, by Mr. Cookson. 
Dr. RUSSELL, Colwyn Bay, says that a Kite was seen there by 
Mr. Exias Owen, who described its forked tail. Dr. FRASER, 
too, who has seen them in Scotland, identified the species at 
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