THE 



BIRDS OF SUSSEX, 



FALCONID^. 



WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. 



Haliceetus alhicilla. 



An Eagle of this species was shot at Shoreham by the land- 

 lord of the Dolphin Hotel iu that place^ where I saw it in 

 1841. It was in immature plumage, and had been killed 

 some years before. In one of my own notes, made at the 

 time, I find that a specimen of this Eagle was killed in 1839 

 near Newhaven. The white was just beginning to show on 

 the outer feathers at the base of the tail. This bird passed 

 into the hands of Mr. H. Morgan, then of Lugwardiue, 

 Herefordshire. Having seen in the ^Sussex Express^ news- 

 paper of December 30, 1844, a notice of an Eagle taken near 

 Northheath, I wrote to the late Mr. Knox, who replied : — 

 ''The Eagle to which you refer is an immature Sea- 

 Eagle trapped in one of the large woods on the Cowdray 

 estate." In the early spring I have twice seen an Eagle 

 pass over — one at Portslade, the other at Henfield, — both going 



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