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<B®X2)]EB j£B(5XJ6. Aquila chrysaetus chrysaUus (L.)- 



Formerly resident in the Snowdon range but became extinct more than a 

 century ago. 



]Mr. H. G. Attlee watched one in Cwm Bychan for thiee quarters 

 of an hour on 2nd July, 1909, during which time it was chased first 

 by a Buzzard, and then, repeatedly, by two Ravens. In view of 

 the recent multiplication of this species in Scotland there is 

 no inherent improbability in this occurrence : it may well 

 have been an immature or " unattached " bird. 



109.- WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. Haliaetus albicilla (L). 



Rare winter or spring visitor. 



An immature White-tailed Eagle, which had haunted the neigh- 

 bourhood for a fortnight previously, was shot in the wing and 

 captured alive near Abersoch, 29th November, 1910. It was 

 sent alive to Mr. Godfrey Fitz-Hugh, Wrexham, and placed 

 in an aviary. An eagle, probably the same bird, haunted the 

 vicinity of Aberaeron (Cardigan) for about a fortnight earlier 

 in the same autumn. 



Mr. A. Heneage Cocks informs me that there was formerly 

 a stuffed eagle at Voelas Hall, obtained on the estate in the 

 forties, but it disappeared while he was a boy, so he cannot 

 be sure as to the species. 



110.— SPARROW HAWK. Accipiter nisus nisus (L.). 



Resident, common in most wooded districts ; less common in Llesm and 

 Anglesey. 



111. — KITE. Milvus milvus milvus (L.), 



Former resident, now only a casual visitor. 



Rev. W. S. Symonds, in Records of the Bocks, p. 171, writes : " The 

 Kite is rare, but the last time I was on Moel Fenlli I saw two 

 soaring among the clouds." The mountam is on the E. side 

 of the Vale of Clwyd, and the date would be about 1870. 



112.— HONEY BUZZARD. Femis apiooriis apivorus (L.). 



Summer migrant, occurring chiefly on autumn migration ; very rare. 



In the Zoologist, 1908, 156, Mr. C. D. Head records a male in 

 his possession shot at Abergele, 15th October, 1907. 



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