8 Mr. A. G. More on the Distributiun of Birds 



Dr. Moore, writing on the birds of Devonshire (Charles- 

 worth's Mag. of Nat. Hist. vol. i. p. 114), mentions that a nest 

 was formerly known on the Dewerstone Eock, close under Dart- 

 moor. This locality is at least ten or twelve miles from the sea ; 

 but the nest is as likely to have belonged to the next species as 

 to the Golden Eagle. 



Haliaetus albicilla {Leach). White-tailed or Sea Eagle. 



Provinces [I.] [II.] [XII.] [XIIL] [XIV.] XV.-XVIII. 

 Subprovinces (2), (5), (25), (26), (27), (28), 29, (30), 31, 32, 



(33), 34, 35, 36, 37, 38. 

 Lat. 56°-61°. " Scottish " or Northern type. 



The Rev. M. A. Mathews informs me that the Sea Eagle 

 formerly nested in Lundy Island. 



In a ' History of the Isle of Wight,^ by the Rev. R. Warner, 

 it is stated that an Eagle has been known to incubate among 

 the crags of the Culver Cliff: the last known to build came there 

 in 1 780, when a young bird was taken from the nest. Willughby 

 mentions an eyrie in Whinfield Park, Westmoreland; and in 

 1692, Mr. Aubrey was told that " Eagles do breed in the parish of 

 Bampton,^^ in the same county {' Corresp. of John Ray,^ p. 257), 

 which Eagles must have been either this or the preceding species. 

 Dr. Hey sham also tells us that in his day this Eagle bred almost 

 every year near Keswick and Ullswater. The late Mr. W. Thomp- 

 son observed a pair of Eagles in the English Lake-district, in July 

 1835 (Cbarlesworth^s Mag. Nat. Hist. i. p. 164) ; and Mr. C. S. 

 Gregson informs me that there is a crag near Grasmere still 

 known as " Eagles' Cliff.'' Mr. J. F. Crellin has ascertained that 

 a pair of Eagles used to build in the high cliffs at the south end 

 of the Isle of Man : none have bred since this pair was destroyed 

 in a snow-storm, about fifty years ago. 



In the south of Scotland, the Sea Eagle used to breed in 

 Dumfries (Charlesworth's Mag. Nat. Hist. i. pp. 119 and 444), 

 in Kirkcudbright [Rev. T. B. Bell), on Ailsa {Mr, R. Gray), 

 on the Bass (J. Wolleij, in ' Ooth. Woll.' p. 49), and seems to be 

 nearly or quite extinct in the south of Scotland, but is still to 

 be found nesting in various localities in the Highlands and 

 Scottish isles. 



