GOLDEN EAGLE. 13 



The Golden Eagle, though occasionally seen and some- 

 times 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, 1 '' as lo- 

 calities for the Golden Eagle. Mr. Selby and his party 

 of naturalists observed this species in Sutherlandshire in 

 the summer of 1834. Mr. Macgillivray, in his detailed 

 descriptions of the Rapacious Birds of Great Britain, has 

 recorded his own observations of this species in the He- 

 brides ; 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 Northumberland. 



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 Connamara 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 obtained in the counties of Donegal 

 and Antrim. 



Wilson, in his American Ornithology, states that the 

 Golden Eagle is found in America, from the temperate to 



