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13th, 1888 (29. Dee. 8). When shot it was flying close to the ground, mobbed by 

 Roolcs. Mr. Harry Garon of High Street, Southend, shot one near there on Oct. 

 28th, 1888, after it had been observed about for several days [Essex Chronicle^ 

 Nov. 16 and 29. Dec. 22). 



Golden Eagle : Aquila chrysaetus. 



An occasional visitor only to England, and in fast-decreasing 

 numbers, though known once to have been resident. It is frequently 

 recorded as being killed in different parts of England, but in almost 

 every case these records are found on investigation to relate to the 

 White-tailed Eagle, from which it may be at once known by its 

 feathered tarsus. 



Mr. Hope says it is " seen passing up the coast and off the main." On March 

 loth, 1877, a bird, supposed to be of this species, was seen flying over Easton 

 Park. Being mobbed by Rooks and Jackdaws, it sailed away towards the S. W. 

 (29. Mar. 24). A gentleman who saw it, and who claimed to be well acquainted 

 with this species, was satisfied that it was not a young White-tailed Eagle, as he 

 hai a very good view of it, and was sure it had no white about it. A young spe- 

 cimen, which is still ipreserved at Nazing Park, was shot at Claverham Bury 

 Farm, on Nov. 15th, 1858, by Fredk. Carr, jun. Its weight was 9lbs. ; length 

 from beak to tail 3ft. 4in. ; and expanse of wing 8ft. ^in. (Mr. Villiers Palmer). 



Mr. G. W. Johnson, in his History of Great Totham (p. 8), which is dated 

 September, 1831, says: "An Eagle was seen a few months since in one of the 

 adjacent woods, which is not a solitary instance, since it is upon record 

 (Ray's Philosophical Letters, p. 269 ) that in Mr. Wilde's woods in this parish 

 one was killed in 1684, whose wings were nine feet in expanse." 



White-tailed Eagle : Haliaetits albicilla. 



Now an occasional winter visitor only to England, though once a 

 more or less common resident, and still much commoner than the 

 Golden Eagle, under which 

 name it is usually recorded 

 when killed, but from which 

 it may at once be distin- 

 guished by its bare and un- 

 feathered tarsus. It usually 

 occurs on the coast, and 

 generally during severe 

 weather. Adults are very 

 seldom met with. 



Hoy records (12. iii. 436) 

 that during the cold weather 

 in the winter of 1829-30 one 

 was shot in Stour Wood, near 

 Harwich, while three other 

 birds (apparently of the same 

 species) for some time frequented 

 the rivers Stour and Orwell. 



WHITE-TAILED EAGLE, l/l2. 



