v&j long; MitY^, sn?i ftrong, the hind ones being more than 

 three inches in length. The female correfponds in colour, 

 except being flightly dafhed with whit€ on the under fide ; it 

 is confiderably larger than the male, fometimes being nine feef 

 in breadth, and four in length, and weighing fixteen pounds. 



This fpecies builds in the moft inacceffible rocks in the north 

 of England, Ireland, Scotland, and fom^ of the Scottifli ifles, 

 it has alfo been known to breed in North Wales, but in all 

 thefe parts is very rare ; it lays three or four white eggs. 



About two years ago one of thefe birds, a female, was fhot 

 near Brompton, in Middlefex, and was prefented by the 

 Compte de Vandes to the London Mufeum, from which 

 fpecimen our figure was taken ^ within a week of the fame 

 time, a male of this fpecies was fhot near Godalming, Surrey, 



The Golden Eagle feeds on hares, rabbits, lambs, and the 

 larger kinds of poultry ; *« and in order to extirpate them from 

 the Oj^kney-Iflands, there is a law which entitles any one 

 killing an Eagle, to a hen out of every houfe in the parifli 



where it may be killed/' 



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