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men in melanistic plumage that was killed in his vicinity." On 

 the coast, it also occurs in small numbers, and Mr. W. E. Cram 

 of Hampton Falls, who has observed the bird frequently, writes 

 me that he had a good opportunity to watch a pair at his town 

 so late as the 5th and 6th of May, 1895. He adds that they were 

 evidently male and female, both in rather dark plumage, and 

 that he might readily have killed both, but preferred not to. 

 Dates : October to (May 6). 



109. Aquila clirysaetos (lyinn.). Goi^den Eagle. 



A permanent resident, now become extremely rare and irreg- 

 ular. There appear to be no recent records of the breeding of 

 this bird in New Hampshire, though formerly a few nested reg- 

 ularly in inaccessible localities among the White Mountains. 

 As recorded by Baird, Brewer and Ridgway ('74, vol. Ill, p. 

 316) a pair nested for years on the inaccessible Eagle cliff, at 

 Profile Lake among the Franconia Mountains. Repeated efforts 

 were made to reach this nest, but in vain. " In the summer of 

 1855 a renewed attempt was made to scale the precipice over 

 which the shelving rock, on which the nest stands, projects. A 

 party was formed, and although they succeeded in ascending 

 the mountain, which was never achieved before, they could 

 reach only a point beyond and above, not the nest itself. * * * 

 The party reported a large collection of bones in its immediate 

 vicinity, with other evidences of the accumulated plunder of 

 many years, as well as a plentiful supply of fresh food at the 

 time visited." Nuttall ('32, vol.1, p. 64) mentions that he saw a 

 young bird which had been brought from the White Mountains, 

 where it had been taken from its nest in the month of August. 

 The last breeding record for the state appears to be that of C. 

 A. Hawes ('78) who states that on July 6, 1876, he observed at 

 White Horse Eedge, North Conway, a nest containing two 

 young, partly fledged. He made an unsuccessful attempt to 

 reach the shelf of rock on which the nest was placed, but man- 

 aged to get sufficiently near to see that the nest itself was about 

 four feet across, and built of large sticks, while all about were 

 scattered feathers, fur and bones. On visiting the locality the 

 following year, he found that the birds were no longer there. 



