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upon which it was butchered (cf. l Zoologist,' June 

 1891). 



Mr. B. Went worth Vernon has informed me that 

 he watched two Eagles (in all probability of this 

 species) soaring high in air over his park at Stoke 

 Bruerne near Towcester, for nearly two hours, in 

 March or April 1891. 



I have received other notices of Sea-Eagles having 

 been shot in and near the borders of our county, but 

 they are all somewhat vague, and some of them with- 

 out doubt refer to the Osprey (Pandion haliaetus). 

 The White-tailed Eagle formerly bred in several 

 localities in Scotland and Ireland, in both of which 

 countries I have often met with it. I have a very 

 fine female of this species alive here, which was taken 

 from a nest in the county of Waterford in 1854, and 

 is in perfect health and fine plumage at this time 

 (December 1893). The White-tailed Eagle is a much 

 more indiscriminate feeder than the Golden, and will 

 not reject carrion of any sort. 



3. OSPREY. 



Pandion haliaetus. 



This fine species has occurred several times to my 

 knowledge in our county. It is thus alluded to by 

 Morton in his work on the ' Natural History of 

 Northamptonshire ' before mentioned : " The Bald 

 Buzzard, the Sea-Eagle or Osprey of Aldrovandus, 

 which is sometimes taken in traps in and near our 

 Fenland, where it is very mischievous." 



A specimen was obtained at Milton, near Peter- 

 borough, in 1823. It has been several times met 



