SPARROW HAWK. 131 
WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. 
HALIAETUS ALBICILLA (Linneus). 
The White-tailed Eagle is not met with so frequently 
on the west as upon the east coast of England, and 
there are only three recorded instances of its occurrence 
in Cheshire. Brockholes once shot at one at Leasowe, 
and the bird was subsequently found dead in a field 
in the neighbourhood! There is a bird in immature 
plumage in the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, which 
was obtained some years ago on the Eaton Estate? 
This, as Dr. Dobie suggests, is probably the female 
recorded by Mr. E. Ward as having been shot ‘near 
Chester, on January 5th, 1863.° A specimen obtained 
at Davenham, near Northwich, some time prior to the 
year 1875, was presented by Major Harper of Davenham 
Hall to the Peter Street Museum, Manchester, and is 
now in the collection at Owens College, Manchester.‘ 
SPARROW HAWK. 
ACCIPITER NIsus (Linnzus). 
Although he has done his utmost, the gamekeeper 
has not yet succeeded in exterminating this bird, and 
most of the larger woods in Cheshire, even if devoted 
to the preservation of game, shelter one or more pairs 
in the breeding season. In winter the Sparrow Hawk 
frequents the more open country, and often the tell- 
1 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 4. 2 Dobie, op. cit. p. 314, 
3 Field, vol. xxi. p. 98. 1863. 
* *Redshank,’ Manchester City News, August 21, 1875. 
