THE GOLDEN EAGLE— RING-TAIL. 77 



Urbain, county of Charlevoix, near Bale St. Paul, in iS6S. They 

 were caught under figure 4 traps, made out of a crocker)- crate. 

 The bait used was a live hen and chickens, tied by the leg to the 

 crate. The Eagles circling round, swooped to the ground, and 

 the hen and chickens seeing the spoiler, retreated under the crate, 

 when, the Eagle pursuing, the person in ambush pulled the string, 

 and the crate fell over the victim ; meanwhile the hen and chickens 

 rushed out throug-h the interstices, leaving;' their would-be ravisher 

 inside a "victim of misplaced confidence." Four fine Eagles were 

 thus caught in one season, and Mr. Lemoine became the purchaser 

 of two of them. These he kept in captivity for thirteen months, 

 and eventually sold them to Capt. Rooke of the 52nd Regt, who 

 carried them to England. The last Mr. Lemoine heard of them 

 was through a paragraph in '• The Field " newspaper, extolling 

 their beauty. Further particulars respecting the capture and bear- 

 ing of these birds may be found in " Maple Leaves." 



Mr. \Vm. Couper, to whom reference has previously been 

 made, informs me that some fine adult specimens of the Golden 

 Eagle have been shot near Quebec. The same person also 

 records its occurrence, from personal observation, on the south 

 coast of Labrador in June, and remarks that it probably breeds 

 there. 



Mr. Mcllwraith of Hamilton does not mention its occurrence 

 near that city, but alludes to the individuals obtained near Toronto 

 by Mr. Passmore, and states, " Its home, however, is in the 

 mountainous regions of Canada East, and its visits here are few 

 and uncertain." 



I have myself met with it in the Chateauguay district, amongst 

 the mountains and lakes bordering on the State of New- York, and 

 in the vicinity of the Owl Head Mountain, Lake Memphremagog. 

 In this section it has been tolerably abundant, but of late years 

 few have been observed. In winter it has been met with as far 

 south as Washington, D.C., where, according to Coues and Dr. 

 Prentiss, specimens were obtained for several years running. In 

 the museum of the Smithsonian Institution are several that were 



