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visitor, occurring chiefly in the autumn and winter, on its 

 passage southward from northern latitudes. Although most 

 frequent on the coast, yet it is by no means confined to it, 

 and visits our large inland woods and waters, where its size 

 soon attracts the attention of the gamekeeper, to whose gun 

 or snare it usually falls a victim. In Yorkshire, as in Norfolk, 

 Durham, and Northumberland (" Birds of Northd. and Dm." 

 1874), the majority of specimens that have occurred are in 

 immature plumage. Stevenson in his " Birds of Norfolk " 

 attributed this to the well-known habit of the old birds of 

 most of the Falconidae of driving away their young from 

 the nesting places as soon as they are able to provide for 

 themselves. A specimen, formerly in the collection of Mr. A. 

 Clapham of Scarborough, and now in the Leeds Museum, is 

 interesting, inasmuch as only two or three feathers of the 

 tail show black tips, having only these to cast to attain to 

 maturity of plumage. This bird was taken at Castle Howard 

 in the year 1841. 



In Graves's " History of Cleveland " one is mentioned 

 as having been shot in December 1807, at Staingate, near 

 Danby Lodge, and is possibly the one referred to in the 

 next paragraph. 



Mr. Thomas Stephenson of Whitby obtained information 

 of one killed in Stonegate Ghyll many years ago by a man 

 named Pringles, whilst poaching by moonlight. This was 

 formerly in the possession of the late G. Page of Guisborough, 

 and was sold at the dispersal of his collection. 



Mr. A. Woodruffe-Peacock announced (Nat. 1895, p. 332), 

 the discovery of a record of this species, obtained near Hessle 

 between 1810 and 1818, and which had been noted in an old 

 copy of Bewick's " British Birds," formerly in the possession 

 of Mr. Michael Woodcock, surgeon, of Hemsworth. 



One was reported off the mouth of the Tees on 5th 

 November 1823 (Zool. 1845, p. 1051). 



Admiral C. C. Oxley of Ripon has in his collection an 

 individual, taken near Marske-by-the-Sea church in October 

 1836. This is the bird recorded by John Grey as a Golden 

 Eagle, (torn. cit. p. 1051). 



