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ascertain, being immature ])irds of the first year : — A 

 male, shot October 11th, on Haslingden Moor, by Mr. 

 John Hoyle [Mr. Hoyle told Mr. Howard that this 

 bird was being chased by a Merlin. — Ed.] , (Howard, 

 ZouL, 1880, p. 488) : One, shot October 14th (S. C. de 

 Trafford, Field, October 30th, 1880) : A female, shot on 

 Waddington Fell, near Clitheroe, October 30th (this 

 was just over the Yorkshire border), stated in the 

 local papers to have been a Snowy Owl : A female, on 

 November 23rd, which had l)een eating rabbits in traps 

 (John Wrigley, Formby, Field, January loth, 1881) : 

 One, shot near Blackpool in December (R. Drummond) : 

 [One near Bolton, C. E. Stott, ZooL, 1889, p. 77.— Ed.] 



GENUS AQUILA. 



SPOTTED EAGLE. 



Aquila clanga, Pallas. 



Mr. W. A. Durnford (" Birds of Walney," 1883) says 

 that in 1875 he examined one of these rare and hand- 

 some birds, which had been picked up dead by some 

 fishermen on the west shore of Walney Island, but was 

 not able to ascertain any further particulars in connec- 

 tion with its occurrence. 



GOLDEN EAGLE. 



Aquila chrysaetus (Linnseus). 



One shot near Millwood, close to Furness Abbey, in 

 1815, W. B. K. (Durnford, "Birds of Walney," 1883). 



