406 Alexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



Though no list has been obtained from South-east Wales, it has 

 been thought best to assume the Subprovince 16 as filled in, whenever 

 a bird has been found to nest in the surrounding districts. 



AQUILA CHRYSAETOS (Pall.} Golden Eagle. 



Provinces [VII.] [VIII.] [XI.] [XII.] XIII. XV.-XVIII. 

 Subprovinces (18), (20), (24?), (25?), 26, (27), 29, 30, 31, 32, (33), 34, 



35, 36, (37). 

 Lat. 55-59. " Highland " or Mountain type. 



In the time of Willughby, the Golden Eagle was reported to breed 

 annually upon the high rocks of Snowdon ; the same writer records a 

 nest found in Derbyshire in 1668. Bewick quotes from Wallis the 

 remark that the Golden Eagle formerly had its eyrie on the highest 

 part of Cheviot. Sir W. Jardine, in his ' British Birds,' speaks of the 

 precipices of Westmoreland and Cumberland as having once boasted 

 of eyries. 



In the south and east of Scotland the Golden Eagle appears to be 

 nearly extinct, having ceased to nest in the counties of Dumfries, Ayr, 

 Forfar, Banff, and Elgin, but still breeds in Kirkcudbright (Rev. T. B. 

 Bell] and Stirling (Mr. R. Gray}, regularly in Perthshire (Col. 

 Drummond-Hay], Aberdeen (Mr. A. Newton}, and the western and 

 northern parts of Scotland and in the Hebrides. 



Dr. Moore, writing on the birds of Devonshire (Charlesworth's Mag. 

 of Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 114), mentions that a nest was formerly known 

 on the Dewerstone Rock, close under Dartmoor. This locality is at 

 least ten or twelve miles from the sea ; but the nest is as likely to have 

 belonged to the next species as to the Golden Eagle. 



HALIAETUS ALBICILLA (Leach}. White-tailed or Sea Eagle. 



Provinces [I.] [II.] [XII.] [XIII.] [XIV.] XV.-XVIII. 

 Subprovinces (2), (5), (25), (26), (27), (28), 29, (30), 31, 32, (33), 34, 35, 



36, 37, 38. 

 Lat. 56-61. " Scottish" or Northern type. 



The Rev. M. A. Mathews informs me that the Sea Eagle formerly 

 nested in Lundy Island. 



In a 'History of the Isle of Wight,' by the Rev. R. Warner, it is 

 stated that an Eagle has been known to incubate among the crags of 

 the Culver Cliff: the last known to build came there in 1780, when a 

 young bird was taken from the nest. Willughby mentions an eyrie in 

 Whinfield Park, Westmoreland ; and in 1692, Mr. Aubrey was told that 

 "Eagles do breed in the parish of Bampton," in the same county 

 ('Corresp. of John Ray,' p. 257), which Eagles must have been either 

 this or the preceding species. Dr. Heysham also tells us that in his 

 day this Eagle bred almost every year near Keswick and Ullswater. 

 The late Mr. W. Thompson observed a pair of Eagles in the English 

 Lake-district, in July, 1835( Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist. i.p. 164); 



