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My friend Mr. R. B. Sharpe informed me that Mr. 

 Briggs, of Cookham, once observed the Golden Eagle 

 at Billing Bear, where he was formerly employed as 

 a keeper. He was walking with another keeper near 

 the outskirts of a plantation, adjoining a field in which 

 some pheasants were feeding. Suddenly there was 

 great excitement among the birds, and several flew 

 quickly into the woods. But before they could all 

 reach a place of safety a large Eagle flew swiftly down, 

 and carried off a pheasant in his talons. Mr. Briggs' 

 fellow- keeper immediately set a trap near the spot, 

 and within three days had the luck to secure the 

 robber, who proved to be, as they had suspected, a 

 Golden Eagle. 



WHITE-TAILED EAGLE (Haliaeetus Albicilla). A 

 White-tailed Eagle was shot near Windsor upon the 

 3d of February, 1851. This specimen was preserved 

 by Mr. H. D. Bartlett, of College Street, Camden 

 Town, Middlesex ; and it was exhibited in its case 

 by him in the Great Exhibition of 1851. 



It was afterwards presented by His Royal Highness 

 the late Prince Consort to the collection which was 

 principally formed by the late Provost at Eton 

 College. Yarrell records that one of these rare Eagles 

 was taken at Fawley Court, in Buckinghamshire, since 

 the first edition of his work was published. 



A fine Eagle of this species was procured in Berk- 

 shire in 1856. 



'On the afternoon of the I2th of December in that 



