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young from a nest taken in the county of Down; and 
from Mr. Thompson I learn that it is not uncommon on 
the rocky parts of the western and northern coasts of 
Ireland. Dr. Heysham, in his Catalogue of Cumberland 
Animals, says that the White-tailed Eagles breed occa- 
sionally in the neighbourhood of Keswick and Ulswater. 
In some parts of Scotland this species may be said to be 
common. In the third volume of the Reports of the 
British Association, at page 610, Mr. Selby states, in his 
notice of the Birds observed in Sutherlandshire in June 
1834, where premiums are paid for the destruction of 
Eagles on account of the injury done to sheep and lambs, 
that one hundred and seventy-one full grown birds had 
been killed within the previous three years. Some of 
these were probably Golden Eagles. 
The White-tailed Eagle breeds in the Hebrides, in 
Orkney, and Shetland. Mr. Dunn, in his useful guide to 
these latter islands, names the particular localities in which 
they may be found, but states that they are much more 
numerous in winter than in summer. This accords with 
the opinion of M. Temminck and others, that this species 
returns to the southward from high northern latitudes as 
the season advances. Mr. Dunn says he once saw, while 
shooting on Rona’s Hill, a pair of Skua Gulls chase and 
completely beat off a large Hagle. The Gulls struck at 
him several times, and at each stroke he screamed loudly, 
but never offered to return the assault. This Hagle fre- 
quents Denmark, Sweden, the west coast of Norway, and 
from thence as far north as Iceland and Greenland, but 
is not found in North America. M. Temminck believes 
that this Eagle follows the flocks of Geese that annually 
resort to the arctic regions in summer to rear their young. 
It is found in Siberia, at Lake Baikal, and inhabits 
