96 BRITISH BIRDS. 
AQUILA CHRYSAETUS. 
GOLDEN EAGLE. 
(PiaTE 2.) 
Aquila aquila, Briss. Orn. i. p. 419 (1760; imm., probably second plumage). 
Aquila chrysaetos, Briss. Orn. i. p. 431 (1760, adult). 
Aquila melaneetus, Briss. Orn. i. p, 434 (1760, young in first plumage). 
Falco chrysaetus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 125 (1766); et auctorum plurimorum— 
(Gould), (Macgillivray), (Bonaparte), Naumann, (Jerdon), (Newton), (Coues), 
(Sharpe), Se. 
Faleo fulvus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 125 (1766). 
Falco fulvus 8. canadensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 125 (1766). 
Falco pygargus, Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 14 (1768). 
Falco melanaétos, Gel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 254 (1788). 
Falco americanus, Gimel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 257 (1788). 
Falco niger, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 259 (1788). 
Falco cygneus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 14 (1790). 
Falco melanonotus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 16 (1790). 
Falco aquila, Daud. Traité d’ Orn. ii. p. 47 (1800). 
Aquila americana (Gmel.), Vieill. Ous. Am. Sept. i. p. 31 (1807). 
Aquila fulva, Sav. Syst. Ovs. de V Egypte, p. 22 (1810). 
Falco regalis, Temm. Man. d’Orn. p. 10 (1815). 
Aquila nobilis, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso- As. i. p. 838 (1826). 
Aquila regia, Less. Traité d’Orn. p. 36, pl. 8. fig. 1 (1831). 
Aquila? daphanea, Hodgs. in Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). 
Aquila barthelemyi, Jaub. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1852, p. 545. 
Aquila canadensis * (Linn.), Cass. B. N. Amer. p. 41 (1858). 
Aquila intermedia, Severtz. Turk. Jevotnie, p. 112 (1873). 
The Golden Eagle, one of the largest and most powerful birds of prey 
found in the British Islands, although occasionally seen and obtained in 
England, may now be said to be confined to the wildest and most isolated 
districts of Scotland and Ireland. Time was when the bird bred in 
England and Wales. In the days of Willughby it was said to breed on the 
cliffs of Snowdon ; and that ornithologist also describes a nest found in 
Derbyshire in the year 1668. Wallis also states, in his ‘ History of 
* Dresser, in his ‘ Birds of Europe,’ includes in the synonymy of the Golden Eagle 
“ Aquila canadensis (Gm.), Wils. Am. Orn. pl. ly. fig. 1 (1808).” There appear to be no 
less than three inaccuracies in this quotation, The authority for the specific name cana- 
densis is either Linneus or Cassin, according to whether names which are quoted as 
varieties are recognized or not. Wilson, on his plate lv. fig. 1, calls this species Ring- 
tail Eagle, and in the text Falco fulvus, This plate illustrates vol. vii., which is dated 
1818, although vol. i. is dated 1808. How is it possible to make so many blunders with 
Sharpe’s ‘ Museum Catalogue’ to copy from? Or is there an edition of Wilson of which 
we know nothing in this country ? 
