34 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) in Suffolk—A female Nut- 
cracker was shot at Beyton on Noy. 10th, 1911, and brought to me 
the same day. It is one of the slender-billed race which is believed 
to inhabit Siberia, and was in good condition. ‘The gizzard was full 
of what appeared to be acorns bitten into small fragments. I cannot 
find any reference to the curious tongue of this bird, which is bifur- 
cated, exactly fitting into a small knob in the lower mandible, dark in 
colour, and rather like a turnip-seed. At least two others have been 
obtained in Hast Anglia, which will doubtless be duly recorded in this 
Journal.—Jun1an G. Tuck (Tostock Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds, 
Suffolk). 
Golden Bagle (Aquila chrysaétus).—fe Mr. Robert Warren’s note 
(Zool. 1911, p. 391), the enclosed cutting from the ‘ Essex County 
Chronicle,’ Noy. 17th, 1911, and the ‘Maldon Advertiser’ may be 
of interest :—‘ A splendid specimen of the Golden Eagle, now very 
rare in the British Isles, has died this week in captivity at Rayleigh 
Mill, Maldon. The bird, a hen, was the property of Mr. Porter 
Garratt. It is known to have been at least sixty-seven years old, and 
it was with the family of Mr. Garratt for the greater part of this 
period. The bird was most ferocious, and would not allow anyone 
to enter its aviary, and when it was removed from its previous home 
at Woodham Walter to Maldon it had to be caught in a pig-net. It 
laid two eggs each year, and these (after each member of the family 
had preserved a specimen) were sold and eagerly sought after by a 
London dealer at twenty-five shillings each. After the eggs were laid 
they were replaced by hen’s eggs, and some of these were hatched by 
the Eagle, but many of the chicks met an early death by being 
trampled on by the Hagle. A pair of chickens, however, were reared 
on one occasion, and were treated by the foster-mother in a most 
affectionate manner, although one of the birds, a cockerel, was a very 
fierce fellow. For these birds the Eagle would readily leave its food, 
and allow itself to be driven away by the cockerel. The Hagle has 
been sent to a taxidermist to be preserved.” 
I knew the Hagle well for the last thirty years, and blew the first 
lot of eggs—ten or a dozen—that had been kept in a drawing-room 
cabinet; she laid one the first year, and then three or four a year, so 
some of my eggs were pretty old, and somewhat of a trouble to wash 
out clean. Altogether she laid about twenty-five eggs, all at Hoe 
Mill, Woodham Walter; none since she has been moved to Maldon. 
Mr. Porter Garratt sold six eggs to Mr. H. M. Wallis, of Reading (a 
contributor to ‘The Zoologist’), for twenty shillmgs each. The 
