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coasts of Ireland. Dr. Heysliam, in his Catalogue of Cum- 

 berland Animals, says that the Sea Eagle and White-tailed 

 Eagle breed occasionally in the neighbourhood of Keswick 

 and Ulswater. In some parts of Scotland this species may 

 be said to be common. In the third volume of the Reports 

 of the British Association, at page 610, Mr. Selby states, in 

 his notice of the Birds observed in Sutherlandshire in June 

 1834, where premiums are paid for the destruction of Eagles 

 on account of the injury done to sheep and lambs, that one 

 hundred and seventy-one full grown birds had been killed 

 within the previous three years. Some of these were pro- 

 bably Golden Eagles, 



The White-tailed Eagle breeds in the Hebrides, in Ork- 

 ney, and Shetland. Mr. Dunn, in his useful guide to these 

 latter islands, names the particular localities in which they 

 may be found, but states that they are much more numer- 

 ous in winter than in summer. This accords with the opi- 

 nion of M. Temminck and others, that this species returns 

 to the southward from high northern latitudes as the season 

 advances. Mr. Dunn says he once saw, while shooting on 

 Rona's Hill, a pair of Skua Gulls chase and completely beat 

 off a large Eagle. The Gulls struck at him several times, 

 and at each stroke he screamed loudly, but never offered to 

 return the assault. This Eagle frequents Denmark, Sweden, 

 the west coast of Norway, and from thence as far north as 

 Iceland and Greenland, but is not found in North America. 

 M. Temminck believes that this Eagle follows the flocks of 

 Geese that annually resort to the arctic regions in summer to 

 rear their young. It is found in Siberia, at Lake Baikal, 

 and inhabits Russia, from whence to the southward it is spread 

 over the European continent generally. 



The whole length of an adult male Cinereous or White- 

 tailed Eagle is about twenty-eight inches ; the females are 



