206 



GOLDEN EAGLE. 



having- been a migration from the more northern provinces of Europe 

 (probably furnished by the pine-forests of Norway, Sweden, &c.,) from 

 the circumstance of its arrival being simultaneous with that of large 

 nights of the woodcock, fieldfare, and redwing. Although I had never 

 before witnessed the actual arrival of the gold-crested regulus, I had 

 long felt convinced, from the great and sudden increase of the species 

 during the autumnal and hyemal months, that our indigenous birds 

 must be augmented by a body of strangers, making these shores their 

 winter's resort. 



" A more extraordinary circumstance in the economy of this bird 

 took place during the same winter, 1 viz. the total disappearance of the 

 whole tribe, natives as well as strangers, throughout Scotland and the 

 north of England. This happened towards the conclusion of the 

 month of January, 1823, and a few days previous to the long-conti- 

 nued snow-storm, so severely felt through the northern counties of 

 England, and along the eastern parts of Scotland. The range and 

 point of this migration are unascertained, but it must probably have 

 been a distant one, from the fact of not a single pair having returned 

 to breed, or pass the succeeding summer, in the situations they had 

 been known always to frequent. Nor was one of the species to be 

 seen till the following October, or about the usual time, as I have 

 above stated, for our receiving an annual accession of strangers to our 

 own indigenous birds."* 



GOLDEN EAGLE (Aquila Chrysaetos, Vigors.) 



ADULT. 



*Falco Chrysaetos, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 125. 5. — Faun. Suec. p. 54. — Gmel. Syst. 1. 



p. 256.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 12. sp. 8.— Raw, Syn. p. 6. 1 Muller, No. 59. 



—Briss. 1. p. 431. 7 Ib. 8vo. p. 124.— L'Aigle Royal, Buff. pi. Enl. 410. 



the female — Ib. Le Grand Aigle L'Aigle Commun, et L'Aigle Royal, Cuv. 



Reg. Anim. 1. p. 314.— Aigle Royal, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 38. 2d edit. — 



Golden Eagle, Br. Zool. 1. No. 42. t. 16.— lb. fol. p. 61. t. A Arct. Zool, 2. 



p. 214. a.—Lewins Br. Birds, 1. t. 2.— Lath. Syn. 1. p. 31.— Ib. Supp. p. 10. 

 — Mont. Orn. Diet. 1.— Ib. Supp.— Will. (Angl.) p. 58.— Bewick's Br. Birds, 

 p. 5.— Wale. Syn. 1. 1. 3.— Shaw's Zool. 7. p. 75. 



YOUNG. 



Falco fulvus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 125. 6 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 256.— Lath. Ind. Orn. 



l.p. 10. 4. — Faleo niger, Gmel. p. 359. — Chrysaetos cauda annulo albo cincta, 

 Rail, Syn, p. 6. 2. — Will. (Angl.) p. 28. — Aquila fulva, Meyer, Vog. Liv. und. 



Esthl. p. 2 L'Aigle commun, Buff. Ois. 1. p. 86.— Ib. pi. Enl. 409. an 



accurate figure of the young bird Black Eagle, Br. Zool. p. 165. No. 43. — 



Ring-tail Eagle, Br. Zool. fol. p. 62.— Will. (Angl.) p. 59.— Lath. Syn. 1. p. 



32 Ib. Supp. p. 10.— Lewins Br. Birds, 1. 1. 3.— Mont. Orn. Dict.-^Ifc.Supp — 



Bewick's Br. Birds, p. 7. — Low's Faun. Oread, p. 31. — Shaw's Zool. 7. p. 71. — 



Wem. Tran. 4. 428. 434.— Flem. Br. Anim. p. 52. 3 Selby, pi. 1. 1*. and 2. 



p. 4. 



1 See Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, vol. v. p. 397 



