VERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF LEICESTERSHIRE. 1638 
in stretch of wings, and 87 inches in length. The wings and 
tail were much abraded, suggesting recent captivity; but, on 
applying to Yarrell for his opinion, he replied that such marks 
were not unusual. The ‘‘Golden Eagle” included in Mr. 
Babington’s ‘ List of Birds,’ printed in Potter’s work on the 
Forest of Charnwood, was wrongly identified, and proved to be an 
immature White-tailed Eagle. The specimen in question is in 
the possession of Lord Stamford. Widdowson reports one taken 
at Stapleford Park. In the ‘Midland Naturalist’ for March, 
1882 (p. 62), Mr. Macaulay mentions one he saw, which was 
shot by Sir G. Beaumont’s keeper at Coleorton, in Noyv., 1879. 
It was seen some days before it was killed feeding on a rabbit. 
He adds that in the autumn of 1881 Sir G. Beaumont saw 
an Eagle soaring over his grounds, but at too great a distance to 
distinguish the species. 
Astur palumbarwus (Linn.). Goshawk.—Harley says :—‘‘ The 
Goshawk must be regarded as exceedingly rare. I have known 
it trapped and shot at Oakley and Gopsall Woods, and recollect 
seeing one many years ago which had been shot at Oakley Wood 
by a gamekeeper named Monk.” In the ‘ Midland Naturalist,’ 
1882, p. 62, Macaulay writes, ‘‘One was seen in Allexton 
Wood in 1881” ; but his informant, Mr. Davenport, replying to 
my enquiries, stated that, so far as he could recollect, the taxi- 
dermist at Billesdon (Potter by name) had in his shop for 
six or seven years (if not more) a bird shot by a Mr. Brewster 
(who once lived at Allexton Hall), at Allexton ; this bird was said 
to be a Goshawk. Mr. Potter, on being written to, confirmed 
this. 
Accipiter nisus (Linn.). Sparrowhawk. — Resident and 
generally distributed. Breeding so close to the town of Leicester 
as Knighton, where I have found the nest and eggs. I purchased, 
from Klkington, an adult male, shot near Ansty, December 
12th, 1885, whilst attempting to strike the decoy Linnet of 
a birdeatcher. Mr. Davenport, who found a Sparrowhawk 
nesting in Skeffington Wood in March, 1884, wrote word that 
“she laid her first egg on April 80th, and continued laying in the 
same nest, by fits and starts, until the first week in June. He 
took fourteen eggs in all from this nest! This bird laid forty-five 
eggs in five years: fourteen in 1879, four in 1880, nine in 1881, 
four in 1882 (in 1888 I was in Cornwall), and fourteen in 1884. 
