SPOTTED EAGLE-GOLDEN EAGLE, 153 
boundaries is recorded by Wise ^ : " A fine male specimen 
was shot, December 28th, 1861, by a keeper of Lord 
Normanton's, in the plantation near Somerley. The bird 
had been noticed for some days previously hovering over 
the forest. Mr. Rake, who saw it in the flesh, tells me that 
the wings measured six feet from tip to tip, and its weight 
was exactly eight pounds." 
The bird is still in Lord Normanton's collection at 
Somerley, near Ringwood. 
This specimen is not noticed by Yarrell and Newton, 
and is only included in the second edition of Saunders' 
" Manual," though another specimen procured in Cornwall 
during the previous month is recorded in these works. 
\Aquila ckrysaetus. Golden Eagle. 
There are several records of the occurrence of this 
species in the county, but on examination we consider 
that the only one which cannot be proved as having 
been an escaped bird is that recorded by Bury in the 
" Zoologist " of 1 844, and even the identification of this 
one — " by the form and measurements of the beak " is 
open to some doubt. He writes that it made its 
appearance about the year 1828 in the neighbourhood of 
Appuldurcombe. It was seen repeatedly and returned 
constantly to the same tree to roost. At the expiration 
of three or four weeks the keeper waylaid and wounded 
it. It escaped for a time, but was captured two or three 
days subsequently by some labourers, and brought to 
the keeper's lodge. It refused to eat, though apparently 
wounded in the wing only, and died in about ten days. 
' "New Forest." 
