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THE GOLDEN EAGLE. 



Aquila chrvsaetus (Linnreus). 



Authenticated occurrences of this fine species in the south of 

 EngLmd are exceedingly rare, for the birds recorded as Golden 

 Eagles generally prove to be examples of the White-tailed or Sea- 

 Eagle in the tawny-brown plumage of immaturity ; the two can, 

 however, be infallibly distinguished by their feet, as pointed out on 

 p. 320. Single specimens have been obtained in Norfolk and Lin- 

 colnshire ; while northward in England the visits of this species 

 are not much more frequent, although about two centuries ago it 

 bred in Derbyshire and A\'ales, and almost within the last hundred 

 years in the Cheviots and the Lake district. Across the Border, 

 as Mr. R. Service informs me, there were eyries up to 1833 in the 



