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from the eyrie alluded to in 1887, which are still living in 

 confinement. In 1890 two others were reared at the same 

 breeding-place. In this neighbourhood three Golden Eagles 

 have been trapped in the last twenty-four years. 



*White-tailed Eagle, Haliaeius albicilla, Linn. — Formerly 

 common in the district where I live (Fanet), but I have not seen 

 one for nearly twenty years, when I saw two on Slieve League. 

 It is not so long as that, however, since this species was to be 

 found at Horn Head, where, of recent years, like the last-named, 

 it has been exterminated by the owner, Mr. C. Stewart. " Major 

 Hamilton, of Brown Hall, has a stuffed White- tailed Eagle, which 

 he shot near Finntown in 1849" (A. B.). Sea Eagles bred at 

 Malin Head thirty years ago. A man used to rob the nest of 

 hares, lambs, &c, brought to the young ones, which were cruelly 

 rendered incapable of availing themselves of the food which the 

 old ones brought. Mr. J. V. Stewart wrote of the White -tailed 

 Eagle as very common about Ards in 1828. 



* Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus, Gmelin.— Breeds in 

 many places in the county. I have noted the following : — Dunaff 

 Head ; the Bin, Fanet ; Kossgull ; Horn Head ; Tory Island : 

 Aranmore Island; Breaghy Head ; island outside Bunbeg, near 

 Gweedore ; Knockalla, Fanet ; Slieve League ; Melmore. I have 

 seen the birds at their breeding-places during the last ten or 

 fifteen years, and the species does not appear to be decreasing. 

 As it is a migrant, and absent when gunners are abroad, it 

 escapes better than other birds of prey. The Peregrine is 

 usually at war with the Kaven during the breeding season, 

 driving it from too near an approach to its nest. But the latter 

 often holds its own breeding-place in the same range of cliffs, 

 and is by no means a vanquished foe. " Breeds also on Tor More 

 and at Lough Belshade ; the former on the coast near Glen Head, 

 and the latter in the mountains above Lough Eske" (A. B.). No 

 doubt there are several other breeding-places. Mr. Stewart called 

 the Peregrine "rare" in his time (1836). 



Greenland Falcon, F. candicans, Gmel. — One was obtained 

 near Greencastle in Innishowen, by Mr. Leake in 1877 ; another 

 in 1884, on the west coast of Donegal (' Report on Migration of 

 Birds,' K M. B.). 



Iceland Falcon, F.islandicas, Gmel. — Mr. Longworth caught 

 one alive at Glenmore, in the Finn Valley, in 1883, 



