8 Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 
Dr. Moore, writing on the birds of Devonshire (Charles- 
worth’s Mag. of Nat. Hist. vol. 1. p. 114), mentions that a nest 
was formerly known on the Dewerstone Rock, close under Dart- 
moor. This locality is at least ten or twelve miles from the sea ; 
but the nest is as likely to have belonged to the next species as 
to the Golden Eagle. 
Haziantus aLpiciiia (Leach). White-tailed or Sea Eagle. 
Provinces [I.] [II.] [XII.] [XIII.] [XIV.] XV.-XVIII. 
Subprovinces (2), (5), (25), (26), (27), (28), 29, (80), 31, 32, 
(33), 34, 35, 36, 37, 38. 
Lat. 56°-61°. “Scottish” or Northern type. 
The Rev. M. A. Mathews informs me that the Sea Eagle 
formerly nested in Lundy Island. 
In a ‘ History of the Isle of Wight,’ by the Rev. R. Warner, 
it is stated that an Eagle has been known to incubate among 
the crags of the Culver Cliff: the last known to build came there 
in 1780, when a young bird was taken from the nest. Willughby 
mentions an eyrie in Whinfield Park, Westmoreland; and in 
1692, Mr. Aubrey was told that “ Hagles do breed in the parish of 
Bampton,” in the same county (‘ Corresp. of John Ray,’ p. 257), 
which Eagles must have been either this or the preceding species. 
Dr. Heysham also tells us that in his day this Eagle bred almost 
every year near Keswick and Ullswater. The late Mr. W. Thomp- 
son observed a pair of Eagles in the English Lake-district, in July 
1835 (Charlesworth’s Mag. Nat. Hist. 1. p. 164) ; and Mr. C.S. 
Gregson informs me that there is a crag near Grasmere still 
known as “ Kagles’ Chiff.” Mr. J. F. Crellin has ascertained that 
a pair of Eagles used to build in the high cliffs at the south end 
of the Isle of Man: none have bred since this pair was destroyed 
in a snow-storm, about fifty years ago. 
In the south of Scotland, the Sea Eagle used to breed in 
Dumfries (Charlesworth’s Mag. Nat. Hist. i. pp. 119 and 444), 
in Kirkeudbright (Rev. T. B. Bell), on Ailsa (Mr, R. Gray), 
on the Bass (J. Wolley, in ‘ Ooth. Woll’ p. 49), and seems to be 
nearly or quite extinct in the south of Scotland, but is still to 
be found nesting in various localities in the Highlands and 
Scottish isles. 
