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eagle which was bred at Buttermere, and died at Greystoke 

 Castle.' This is quite as likely to have been a Sea Eagle as a 

 Golden Eagle, but the bill cannot be found by its present owner, 

 Mr. J. Eichmond. We cannot carry the residence of the Golden 

 Eagle to a later date than the last years of the eighteenth century. 

 It is highly probable that, as long as the species bred in Southern 

 Scotland, the birds might from time to time cross the Solway Firth, 

 to carry off lambs from the Cumbrian farmers. In the spring 

 of 1775. an Eagle, believed to have been a Golden Eagle, had 

 carried off a number of Lambs, but was eventually shot in King 

 Meadow, Carlisle. 



Mr. E. Service kindly writes to me : — 



'The Golden Eagle — so far as my information goes — bred 

 in 1833 on Gameshope, a farm contiguous to Loch Skene, in 

 Dfs.shire. 



' In Kirk cbt shire the last nests were towards the end of the 

 ; 50s (I cannot be more precise). The Eagle presently kept at 

 Cairnsmore House was taken at the clints of Dromore in 1850, 

 and is lively as ever. An Eagle taken at the end of last 

 century died at Cumloden Lodge in 1855. 



' Definite information about the white-tailed Eagle is wanting, 

 though doubtless this was the species which bred on Burrow 

 Head and the Mull. Eyries are pointed out on islets in Lochs 

 such as Grannoch and Skerrow in the Stewartry and Skene in 

 Dfs.hire ; but this eagle is so much mixed up with the Osprey 

 that it is perhaps impossible now to unravel the matter. 



1 On Loch Macaterick, on the borders of Galloway and Ayr- 

 shire, eaglets were taken in 1812 by a young fellow who swam 

 the loch, and this man was still alive in Dalmellington a couple 

 of years ago, and may be so yet.' 



In 1834, James Harrison, a keeper, wrote to Mr. T. C. 

 Hey sham from Hensel, Kirkcudbright, on the 17 th of May : — 



' I have been two journeys of 10 miles after the falken and 

 Eagle, the Eagles I saw in the mountains, they have left the 

 place where they had' bred for these last 30 years until these 

 last two years. They have gone about 9 or 10 miles further 

 into one Broughton Murrays of the Kelleys estate/ The same 



