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EAGLE. GOLD EN: 
RING-TAILED EF\AGLE. 
Fatco cHrysaEta, Lin. 
The Golden Eagle, though occasionally seen, and 
sometimes obtained, in the southern counties of 
England, and in Ireland, where a few specimens 
have been taken, is more exclusively confined to 
Scotland. Itis found also in America, from the 
temperate to the Arctic regions, particularly in 
the latter ; as well as in Iceland, Scandinavia, 
Russia, and Germany. In the districts it inhabits 
it commits great havoc among the lambs, roebucks, 
fawns, grouse, &c., and it is only under the pres- 
sure of extreme hunger that the Golden Eagle will 
feed upon a dead carcase. It breeds in the north 
of Scotland. Its nest is usually placed upon some 
shelf of rock or jutting platform of stone, and 
is of large dimensions, formed of sticks, heath, 
&e. The egos, generally two in number, are of a 
greyish white hue, more or less coloured with 
spots of reddish brown or purple. In the young 
bird, until its third year, the tail, two-thirds of its 
length, is white, the remainder, or end part, 
blackish brown. In.this state it is the Ring-tail of 
different authors. 
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