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received the young from a nest taken in the county of 

 Down; and from Mr. Thompson I learn that it is not 

 uncommon on the rocky parts of the western and northern 

 coasts of Ireland. Dr. Hey sham, in his Catalogue of 

 Cumberland Animals, says that the White-tailed Eagles 

 breed occasionally in the neighbourhood of Keswick and 

 Ulswater. In some parts of Scotland this species may 

 be said to be common. In the third volume of the 

 Reports of the British Association, at page 610, Mr. 

 Selby states, in his notice of the Birds observed in Suther- 

 landshire in June, 1834, where premiums are paid for the 

 destruction of Eagles on account of the injury done to 

 sheep and lambs, that one hundred and seventy-one 

 full grown birds had been killed within the previous 

 three years. Some of these were probably Golden 

 Eagles. 



The White-tailed Eagle breeds in the Hebrides, in 

 Orkney, and Shetland. Mr. Dunn, in his useful guide to 

 these latter islands, names the particular localities in 

 which they may be found, but states that they are much 

 more numerous in winter than in summer. This accords 

 with the opinion of M. Temminck and others, that this 

 species returns to the southward from high northern 

 latitudes as the season advances. Mr. Dunn says he 

 once saw, while shooting on Rona's Hill, a pair of Skua 

 Gulls chase and completely beat off a large Eagle. The 

 Gulls struck at him several times, and at each stroke he 

 screamed loudly, but never offered to return the assault. 

 This Eagle frequents Denmark, Sweden, the west coast 

 of Norway, and from thence as far north as Iceland and 

 Greenland, but is not found in North America. M. 

 Temminck believes that this Eagle follows the flocks of 

 Geese that annually resort to the Arctic regions in sum- 

 mer to rear their young. It is found in Siberia, at Lake 



