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and Russia as far south as about 56° N. latitude eastwards 

 across Siberia to Kamchatka and as far south as Lake 

 Baikal ; it is also found in Alaska. In winter it moves 

 southwards to the Caspian sea, Turkestan, and northern 

 Japan, and occasionally occurs in southern Europe and 

 the islands of the Mediterranean. It is represented in 

 northern India and Tibet and in America by allied forms. 



Genus AQUILA Brisson, Orn. i. 1760, p. 419. 

 Type : A. chrt/saetus (Linn.). 



AquUa^a,a Eagle, in classical Latin ; either from the same root as aqwilus— 

 dark, dx^'^s=mist, (u;^pos= sallow, or perhaps from the root ac found in 

 acutus, etc. 



Aquila chrysaetus. Golden Eagle. 



Falco Chry setos LinncBus, Syst. . Nat. 1758, p. 88 : 



Sweden. 



Aquila chrysaetus (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds JB. M. i. 1874, 

 p. 235; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 96; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 327. 



Chrysaetus=xpvaaeTos, the Golden Eagle, in ^Kan, N. A, ii. 39; from 

 XpvfJo^ and dero?. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Sesident in the High- 

 lands of Scotland and in the Inner and Outer Hebrides, 

 also formerly in Hoy, Orkney Islands. To the south of 

 Scotland and to England it is now a very rare visitor, though 

 it formerly bred in the Cheviots, the south-west of Scotland, 

 the Lake District, Derbyshire, and Wales. In Ireland a few 

 pairs were resident until recently in the north and west, but 

 are now believed to have disappeared. 



General Distribution. — The Golden Eagle breeds in 

 Europe, north Africa, northern and central Asia southwards 

 to the Himalaya ; also in North America southwards to Texas 

 and Carolina. Various races have been recognised. 



