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EAGLE, GOLDEN. 

 KING-TAILED EAGLE. 



FALCO CHRYSAETA, Lin. 



The Golden Eagle, though occasionally seen, and 

 sometimes obtained, in the southern counties of 

 England, and in Ireland, where a few specimens 

 have been taken, is more exclusively confined to 

 Scotland. It is found also in America, from the 

 temperate to the Arctic regions, particularly in 

 the latter; as well as in Iceland, Scandinavia, 

 Kussia, and Germany. In the districts it inhabits 

 it commits great havoc among the lambs, roebucks, 

 fawns, grouse, &c., and it is only under the pres- 

 sure of extreme hunger that the Golden Eagle will 

 feed upon a dead carcase. It breeds in the north 

 of Scotland. Its nest is usually placed upon some 

 shelf of rock or jutting platform of stone, and 

 is of large dimensions, formed of sticks, heath, 

 &c. The eggs, generally two in number, are of a 

 greyish white hue, more or less coloured with 

 spots of reddish brown or purple. In the young 

 bird, until its third year, the tail, two-thirds of its 

 length, is white, the remainder, or end part, 

 blackish brown. In this state it is the Ring-tail of 

 different authors. 



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