GOLDEN EAGLE. 13 
The Golden Eagle, though occasionally seen and some- 
times obtained in the southern counties of England, is 
more commonly found in Scotland, and its western and 
northern islands. Mr. Mudie, in his Feathered Tribes of 
the British Islands, has named “ the higher glens of the 
rivers that rise on the south-east of the Grampians—the 
high cliff called Wallace’s Craig on the northern side of 
Lochlee, and Craig Muskeldie on its south side,” as lo- 
calities for the Golden Eagle. Mr. Selby and his party 
_of naturalists observed this species in Sutherlandshire in 
the summer of 1834. Mr. Macgillivray, in his detailed 
descriptions of the Rapacious Birds of Great Britain, has 
recorded his own observations of this species in the He- 
brides; and other observers have seen it in the Orkney 
and Shetland Islands, where it is said constantly to rear 
its young. 
Some years ago a specimen was killed at Bexhill in 
Sussex ; it has also occurred, but very rarely, in Suffolk, 
Norfolk, Derbyshire, Durham, and Northumberland. 
In a direction, south and west of London, the Golden 
Hagle has been obtained or seen in the Isle of Wight, and 
on the coasts of Devonshire and Cornwall. In Treland, 
a Ring-tailed Eagle, the young of the Golden, was seen 
by a party of naturalists in Connamara in the autumn of 
1835; and from William Thompson, Esq. President of the 
Natural History Society of Belfast, to whom I am indebted 
for a catalogue and notes of the Birds of Ireland, which 
will be constantly referred to throughout this work, I 
learn that specimens of the Golden Hagle are preserved 
in Belfast which were obtained in the counties of Donegal 
and Antrim. 
Wilson, in his American Ornithology, states that the 
Golden Eagle is found in America, from the temperate to 
