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learn, appears to have become rare. According to Professor Bernhardt (Ibis, 1861, p. 4) it is 

 " very common in South Greenland all the year round, in North Greenland only in summer." 

 Professor Newton records it as generally distributed throughout Iceland in the vicinity of water, 

 but nowhere very abundant. It breeds there, and, according to Faber, remains during the 

 winter. Captain Feilden writes that it "no longer breeds in the Feeroe Islands, and is only 

 an occasional winter visitant. The boatmen when passing Lindholm do not fail to point out the 

 rock on which this Eagle had its eyry, and to which the child was carried as related by Landt : — 

 ' The mother hastened to the rock where the nest was built, and which is so steep towards the 

 summit that the most expert bird-catchers have never ventured to climb it ; but the poor woman 

 arrived too late ; for the child was already dead, and its eyes torn out.' Svabo remarks that 

 Eagles must have been frequent formerly, as their beaks were ordered to be given as tax, according 

 to royal resolution of the 21st November, 1774. Several names of places show this also, as 

 Arnafjord by Ordevig, Arnefiord, in Bordoe, &c. In Fseroe the man who takes the bill of an 

 Eagle to the sheriff is exempt for life from Noebbetold, or bill-tax. Herr Miiller has in his 

 collection the leg and foot of one of this species which was captured in the winter of 1860, on 

 the island of Sandoe, during a severe snow-storm ; the bird was crouching under a rock, 

 protecting itself from the wind and snow, when observed by a man, who, stealing up, threw 

 himself on the Eagle and wrung its neck." In Scandinavia it is common, and, according to 

 Mr. Collett, breeds numerously along the coast of Norway up to the North Cape and the 

 Varanger fiord, and nothing is more common than to see one seated on the pinnacle of a rock. 

 They are, he writes, " more abundant, probably, than anywhere else, off the coasts of Trondhjem 

 and Nordland ; and it is never absent from the ' Fuglebjerge ' or breeding-stations of the sea- 

 fowl, where it sits on the rocks, whence it may at any moment swoop down and secure a bird. 

 The sea-fowl take but little heed of this powerful robber, each one trusting that he may not be 

 made the next victim. Compared with the Golden Eagle the present species is far more 

 numerous. It seldom penetrates far up the fiords, but keeps to the coast and the islands, 

 being a resident. On the Swedish side it is tolerably common in the north during the summer 

 season, but rare in the south, where, during the winter, it is not unfrequently found." 



In Finland I frequently met with it, and have seen it in almost every part of the country I 

 visited, from the Russian frontier below Wyburg up to the Lapland frontier; and the late 

 Magnus von Wright informed me that it is not uncommon near Kuopio, where I personally did 

 not see it. In Northern Russia it is common; and Sabanaeff informs me that he found the 

 Sea-Eagle commoner than the Golden Eagle in the Government of Jaroslaf, but not so common 

 in those of Moscow, Tamboff, and Smolensk. It is found throughout the Government of Perm, 

 except in those parts which are bare of wood. Meves met with it on the Ladoga and Onega 

 Lakes, at Cholmogory and Archangel, everywhere common. He gives a list of the remains 

 found at a nest of this species, which contained two young birds about five and eight days old. 

 The remains were those of the following Ducks, viz. two female Eiders, one female Red- 

 breasted Merganser, one female Goosander, and two Long-tailed Ducks, one of which was 

 alive, but had its wings and legs broken. Of the others some were fresh killed, some half- 

 eaten, and of the rest only the skeletons remained. 



On the coasts of the Baltic provinces and of North Germany it is by no means rare ; and I 



