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do breed with us resort to the coast-line in winter. 

 Notes : call, kwee-kwee, trui, or pe y pe y pe. Local 

 and other names : Dunlin Sandpiper, Purre, Jud- 

 cock, Stint (the name of a different species alto- 

 gether), Oxbird, Plover's Page, Churr, Sea Snipe, 

 Sea Lark, Least Snipe. Sits pretty closely. 



EAGLE, GOLDEN. 



(Aquila chrysaetus.} 

 Order ACCIPITRES ; Family FALCONID.E (FALCONS). 



Description of Parent Birds. Length about 

 thirty-six inches. Beak moderately long, much 

 curved at the tip, and bluish horn colour ; bare 

 skin round the base yellow. Irides hazel. The 

 whole of the plumage is brown ; the head, back 

 of neck, and some of the wing-coverts reddish ; 

 wing-quills blackish-brown ; tail-quills of two shades 

 of brown, darkest at the tip. Chin and throat 

 dark brown ; under-parts of the body and thighs 

 bay. The legs are feathered down to the feet, 

 which characteristic distinguishes this bird from 

 the Sea Eagle. The feet are yellow and the claws 

 black. Mr. Booth was of opinion that the Golden 

 Eagle does not assume the full mature plumage 

 until it is five or six years old. 



The female resembles the male in plumage, 

 but is somewhat larger in size. 



Situation and Locality. On ledges of high in- 

 accessible cliffs and precipices and trees in the 

 wildest and most desolate parts of Scotland and 

 Ireland. In some of the Highland deer forests this 

 noble bird is now strictly preserved, and such most 

 commendable hospitality will no doubt save it to 



