GOLDEN EAGLE. 9 



times obtained in the southern counties of England, is more 

 exclusively confined to Scotland, and its western and north- 

 ern islands. Some years ago a specimen was killed at Bex- 

 hill in Sussex ; it has also occurred, but very rarely, in Suf- 

 folk, Norfolk, Derbyshire, Durham, and Northumberland. 

 Mr. Mudie, in his Feathered Tribes of the British Islands, 

 has named " the higher glens of the rivers that rise on the 

 south-east of the Grampians — the high cliff called Wallace's 

 Craig on the northern side of Lochlee, and Craig Muskeldie 

 on its south side," as localities for the Golden Eagle. Mr. 

 Selby and his party of naturalists observed this species in 

 Sutherlandshire in the summer of 1834. Mr. Macgillivray, 

 in his detailed descriptions of the Rapacious Birds of Great 

 Britain, has recorded his own observations of this species in 

 the Hebrides ; and other observers have seen it in the Ork- 

 ney and Shetland Islands, where it is said constantly to rear 

 its young. 



In a direction west of London, the Golden Eagle has 

 been obtained or seen on the coasts of Devonshire and Corn- 

 wall. In Ireland, a Ring-tailed Eagle, the young of the 

 Golden, was seen by a party of naturalists in Connamara 

 in the autumn of 1835 ; and from William Thompson, Esq. 

 Vice-president of the Natural History Society of Belfast, to 

 whom I am indebted for a catalogue and notes of the Birds 

 of Ireland, which will be constantly referred to throughout 

 this work, I learn that specimens of the Golden Eagle are 

 preserved in Belfast which were obtained in the counties of 

 Donegal and Antrim. 



Wilson, in his American Ornithology, states that the 

 Golden Eagle is found in America from the temperate to 

 the arctic regions, particularly in the latter, breeding on high 

 precipitous rocks, always preferring a mountainous country. 

 Dr. Richardson considers that this bird is seldom seen in 



