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Now, I do not think that we need attach much importance to 

 Richardson quoting Berkenhout's name and diagnosis of Falco 

 haliaetus, since he could hardly have been able to compare it with 

 the bird itself — and he would be likely to adopt the name of 

 "Osprey" as current amongst his neighbours, and at that time 

 used for the Sea Eagle. Moreover, it is not probable that 

 Richardson could have overlooked the Sea Eagle, when we know 

 that it was found in the district, and, as I read Heysham, on the 

 very same lake of Ullswater. 



Hence I think we may fairly conclude that the aery in 

 Whinfielcl Park belonged to the White-tailed Eagle, and was 

 probably built on a large tree ; that Heysham's two Eagles 

 represent only one species, the White-tailed Eagle ; that 

 Richardson's two Eagles are the Golden and the White-tailed ; 

 and that the Osprey eagle-tree on the banks of the Eden also 

 belonged to the White-tailed Eagle. And it seems to me that 

 hitherto no satisfactory evidence has been adduced in favour 

 of the Osprey breeding formerly on the English Lakes ; nor, 

 I may add, in any part of England, though a nest was once 

 reported to me from Somersetshire (see * Ibis,' 18G5, p. 9). 



NOTES ON BIRDS SEEN IN SWITZERLAND. 



By 0. V. Aplin 

 (Member of the British Ornithologists' Union). 



So little is written upon the birds of Switzerland in * The 

 Zoologist' that I venture to offer the following slight notes made 

 during a short tour in the Bernese Oberland, in company with 

 Mr. W. Warde Fowler, in June, 1891. Shortly speaking, the 

 ground covered was this : — We arrived at Bern via Porrentruy 

 (1457 ft.), Delemont (1430 ft), and Bienne, and I was able to see 

 a few birds from the train while passing through the Jura in the 

 early morning. From Bern we went to Thun (1840 ft.), and up 

 the lake to Interlaken (1860 ft.), then up- the lake of Brienz to 

 Meiringen (1968 ft.). On the second day at Meiringen we took 

 up our quarters at the Hotel Alpbach, which is perched on the 

 precipitous wooded side of the Hasliberg, 900 ft. above the village 

 (i.e. about 2900ft.). From here we visited the woods and pas- 

 tures, and the pine belt of the Hasliberg in the direction of the 



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