26 BRITISH BIRDS, THEIR EGGS AND NESTS. 
alive and unhurt and smiling in her face, descended again—a 
more perilous feat still—in safety, and once more on level 
ground at the foot, swooned helplessly away. The Hagles did 
not attack her in reality, though their fierce menaces made the 
spectators tremble. Our boy readers if ever they found an 
Hagle’s nest might well need the protection of a good strong 
cudgel, fearlessly and skilfully wielded, before they succeeded in 
possessing themselves of one of its eggs.— zg. 1, plate I. 
4, WHITE-TAILED EAGLE.—(Haliaetus albicilla). 
Called also Erne, Cinereous Hagle, Sea Hagle.—This species— 
a member of another genus, however—like the last, breeds amid 
high, almost inaccessible rocks, in the mountainous solitudes of 
Scotland; and some of the northernmost British Islands. The 
nest resembles the Golden Hagle’s, but is often more cushioned— 
one can hardly say lined, when there is scarcely any cavity or 
depression to receive the eggs—more cushioned with soft material 
such as heather or sea-weed. This Eagle seldom lays more than 
two eggs, which in ground-colour are like the Golden Hagle’s, but 
not often noticeably marked with red, 
The White-tailed Eagle is much more frequently seen south of 
the Border than the Golden Eagle. In fact, a year rarely passes 
without some record of the occurrence of this fine bird in more 
than one county of England, and those by no means always the 
most northerly. On the rabbit warrens of Norfolk and Suffolk 
they are frequently met with, and it not seldom happens that 
two are seen together—perhaps the young from the same nest 
driven forth by their stern parents to seek their own living 
in the wide world. 
The male Eagle of this species is known, like the male of many 
