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THE A\HITE-TAILED EA(iLE. 



Haliaetus albici'lt^a (Linnii?us). 



Immature examples of this species — also called P>ne, Cinereous or 

 Sea-Eagle — are not unfrequently observed in the maritime counties 

 of England in autumn and winter, when the birds reared in the 

 northern parts of Europe are on their migration southward ; adults 

 are, however, of very rare occurrence. Within the last hundred 

 years the White-tailed Eagle bred in the Tsle of Man, the Lake 

 district, and Galloway, Dumfriesshire and other ])laces in the south 

 of Scotland ; but now its eyries are confined to the western and 

 northern coast, and the islands, including the Shetlands. In Ireland, 

 where it was formerly more numerous than the Golden Eagle, its 

 propensities for carrion have led to its destruction by poison, and 

 only on the west coast can a pair or two be found. 



