GOLDEN EAGLE. 13 



The Golden Eagle, though occasionally seen and 

 sometimes obtained in the southern counties of England, 

 is more commonly found in Scotland, and its western 

 and northern islands. Mr. Mudie, in his Feathered 

 Tribes of the British Islands, has named "the higher 

 glens of the rivers that rise on the south-east of the 

 Grampians the high cliff called Wallace's Craig on the 

 northern side of Lochlee, and Craig Muskeldie on its 

 south side," as localities for the Golden Eagle. Mr. 

 Selby and his party of naturalists observed this species 

 in Sutherlandshire in the summer of 1834. Mr. Mac- 

 gillivray, in his detailed descriptions of the Rapacious 

 Birds of Great Britain, has recorded his own obser- 

 vations of this species in the Hebrides ; and other 

 observers have seen it in the Orkney and Shetland Islands, 

 where it is said constantly to rear its young. 



Some years ago a specimen was killed at Bexhill 

 in Sussex ; it has also occurred, but very rarely, 

 in Suffolk, Norfolk, Derbyshire, Durham, and Northum- 

 berland. 



In a direction, south and west of London, the Golden 

 Eagle has been obtained or seen in the Isle of Wight, 

 and on the coasts of Devonshire and Cornwall. In 

 Ireland, a Ring-tailed Eagle, the young of the Golden, 

 was seen by a party of naturalists in Connemara in the 

 autumn of 1835; and from William Thompson, Esq., 

 President of the Natural History Society of Belfast, 

 to whom I am indebted for a catalogue and notes of 

 the Birds of Ireland, which will be constantly referred 

 to throughout this work, I learn that specimens of the 

 Golden Eagle are preserved in Belfast which were ob- 

 tained in the counties of Donegal and Antrim. 



Wilson, in his American Ornithology, states that the 

 Golden Eagle is found in America, from the temperate 



