APPENDIX A. 



SPECIES TO BE ^^DDED. 



AQUILA CHRYSAETUS (Linnfeus). 

 GOLDEN EAGLE. 



Mr. Stevenson pointed out Avhen speaking- of the 

 wLite-tailed eagle (vol. i., p. 4) that although frequently 

 recorded, no authentic instance of the occurrence of the 

 golden eagle in the county of Norfolk had to his know- 

 ledge ever come under the notice of any competent 

 authority; the so-called golden eagles, as has also fre- 

 quently been the case since, invariably proving on 

 examination to have been immature examples of the 

 white-tailed eagle. 



The claim, and the only claim, so far as the present 

 writer knows, of this species to a place in the list of 

 Norfolk birds, rests upon the finding of the remains of 

 an undoubted specimen on the salt marshes at Stiff key, 

 as first recorded in the " Field," and subsequentl}^ by 

 Mr. Stevenson in the "Zoologist" for October, 1869, 

 p. 1863, as follows : — 



" Golden Eagle in Norfolk, — A correspondent in the 

 'Field,' of December 19, 1868, announced that a 

 golden eagle had been found dead in the Stiffkey 

 Marshes, in this county, and, though in a state of 

 decomposition when discovered, that the sternum and 

 feet were preserved. I have since had an opportunity 

 of examining one of these feet, by which the species is 



