FALCONIDA, 327 
THE GOLDEN EAGLE. 
AQUILA CHRYSAETUS (Linnzus). 
As regards England, authenticated occurrences of this species in 
the south are exceedingly rare ; the birds recorded as. “Golden” 
Eagles generally proving to be examples of the White-tailed or Sea- 
Eagle in thé tawny-brown plumage of immaturity. At long intervals 
single specimens have been obtained in Sussex (Charleton Forest, 
prior to 1752), Norfolk (Stiffkey, November 1868), Lincolnshire 
(November 1st 1881 and October 29th 1895), and Northampton- 
shire (October 1849); while somewhat further northward this species 
is not much more frequent, although about two centuries ago it 
bred in Derbyshire and Wales, and almost within the last hundred 
years in the Cheviots and the Lake district. Across the Border, 
as Mr. R. Service informs me, there were eyries up to 1833 in the 
Moffat Hills, and for some years after 1850 in Ayrshire and Kirkcud- 
brightshire; but to the Lowlands of Scotland the Golden Eagle is now, 
