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castle-upon-Tyne, mentions three examples that were shot 

 in Chillingham Park, where they were accustomed to feed 

 upon the fallen deer. 



The White-tailed Eagle builds its nest on high rocks, 

 and lays two eggs about the same size as those of the 

 Golden Eagle, but with very little or no red colour on 

 the white ground. The young are at first covered with a 

 soiled white down; and even at this age the beaks and 

 claws of the Eaglets are of very large size. A pair of 

 Golden Eagles have been known to rear their young in 

 the same spot for eight seasons in succession ; and Mr. Mu- 

 die has mentioned that being thus attached to a particular 

 locality, their young, when able to provide for themselves, 

 are driven away by the parent birds to get their living 

 elsewhere ; but the more erratic White-tailed Eagle, 

 quitting the breeding station when the season is over, leave 

 their young to forage over the district in which they have 

 been raised. 



This species has been taken in most of the counties on 

 the east coast. A pair were trapped on a rabbit-warren 

 in Suffolk, one of which carried a heavy trap nearly half 

 a mile, and was secured with some difficulty. Six spe- 

 cimens have been killed in Norfolk since the year 1811. 

 Holy Island and St. Abb's Head are localities near which 

 these birds have been occasionally seen. Specimens have 

 also been killed in Hampshire, Devonshire, Somersetshire, 

 and Shropshire. Since the publication of the first edition 

 of this work, one example of this Eagle has been shot at 

 Thetford in Norfolk ; one near Weymouth ; one at Faw- 

 ley Court near Henley; and one so near London as 

 Coombe Wood, Wimbledon Common. This last bird was 

 well preserved by Mr. Larkham of Eoehampton, for H. 

 B/. H. the Duke of Cambridge. Montagu received the 



