150 THE BIRDS OF DEYOX. 



zance, and on the death of that gontlcman came, with tlie rest of his 

 birds, back to Trebartha, where it is still preserved. The month of 

 IS'ovember, in the following year, produced the second example of this 

 Eagle, which was shot in the Parish of 8t. Mawgan, near St. Columb, and 

 was gorged with horse-flesh when killed. It is now in the Truro Museum, 

 where we Imve seen it, and is as fine a specimen as the first.] 



[GrOlden Eagle. AquUa chrysaetus (Linn.). 



A casual visitor, of very doubtful occurrence. Dr. Edward Moore writes 

 of this species in his " List of Dartmoor Birds," in the Appendix to Howe's 

 ' Perambulation of Dartmoor' (1st ed, p. 232), as follows : — " The Golden 

 Eagle has been associated traditionally with Dartmoor, and 3[r. Gosling, 

 of Leigham, who was well acquainted with the subject, informed me that 

 there was an old-standing rejiort that its nest was formerl}- known on the 

 Dewerstone." Prof. Newton, however, considers that the Eagles seen there 

 were of the "White-tailed species (Yarrell's 13. Birds, 4th cd. i. p. 27). The 

 (lolden Eagle is included amongst occasional visitors to Lundy Island, but 

 probably in error (Trans. Devon. Assoc, iv. p. 605 ; viii. p. 308).] 



White-tailed Eagle. IlaUaetus alhicilla (Linn.). 



A casual visitor, of occasional occurrence. 



This noble bird is now only a sti'aggler to our county, where it once 

 Tised to nest. Most of the examples met with at the present day occur in 

 the autumn and winter, and are young birds of the year on their passage 

 south. In our youth wc often visited a tame White-tailed Eagle which 

 was kept chained in a small garden in Barnstaple, which had been 

 captured in the neighbourhood. I^everal have been seen at different times 

 on the north coast of Devon, near llfracombe, and Mr. G. Mathias. of that 

 town, on more than one occasion, when out shooting in the winter of 

 ]8()0, got close to one which, for a month or two, frequented the ad- 

 jacent coast, and, greatly to bis credit, refrained from killing it. In the 

 collection of Dr. "NVoodforde, of Taunton, there was an example of a young 

 "NVhite-tailed Eagle, which was caught alive at HoLsworthy, and then 

 carried about the country for exhibition. It died at Taunton, where the 

 Doctor purchased it from its possessor. 



We have a photogra])h of a very fine examjde which was shot near 

 Tiverton in 1887. We have sesn four or five specimens of the AVhite- 

 tailcd Eagle which had been shot at various dates on the coast between 

 Minehead and Bridgwater. One of these was a very fine adult, and was 

 purchased for <£10 by an American gentleman residing in Taunton, who 

 ke])t it in a handsome case at the foot of his bed, saying it was " his 

 national bird :'' while the star-spangled banner waved from the wall above 

 his head ! AVhite-tailed Eagles are occasionally seen on Exmoor. Two 

 years ago a pair frequented the Quantocks in West Somerset, at the 

 beginning of the year, and frightened the farmers by carrying off their 



