THE BIKDS 



OF 



THE HTJMBER DISTRICT. 



RAPTOEES. FALCONIDJE. 



1. AQUILA CHRYSAETOS (Linnaeus). Golden Eagle. 



A beautiful young female Golden Eagle, in the 

 first year's plumage, was shot in December 1861, at 

 S kerne, near Driffield, in the East Biding of York- 

 shire, when in the act of eating a hare, by a man 

 called Kemp, gamekeeper to A. Bannister, Esq. It 

 was skinned and set up by Mr. Roberts, of Scar- 

 borough, who says (Zoologist, 1862, p. 7880) it 

 weighed 8 Ibs. 5 oz. This bird is now in the fine 

 collection of the Norwich Museum, to which it was 

 presented by Francis Hoare, Esq., of Tranby Park, 

 near Hull. 



2. HALI^ETUS ALBICILLA (Linnaeus). White-tailed 



Sea-Eagle. 



Specimens of this Eagle are occasionally met with 

 in this district ; one, an apparently immature bird, 



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