GOLDEN EAGLE— WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. 155 
A third specimen was shot at Wotton, near Ryde, in 
1885, ^i^d had been seen for some time in the Park at 
Osborne, but Captain Hadfield writes to the " Zoologist " 
that " an intelligent young man who takes great interest 
in ornithology, having examined this bird, is of opinion 
that it had been in confinement, of which there can be little 
doubt, the tail-feathers being worn and ragged." 
Mr. Mansell-Pleydell records in the " Birds of Dorset- 
shire " that one was seen in Christchurch Harbour in 
October, 1885, but we doubt the correct indentification 
of this species from merely being seen. 
Neither Kelsall nor Mr. Meade-Waldo admit it in 
either of their lists.] 
Gen US — Halidetus. 
132. Halidettcs albicilla. White-tailed Eagle. 
Sea Eagle. 
"He clasps the crag with crooked hands ; 
Close to the sun in lonely lands, 
Ringed with the azure world, he stands. 
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; 
He watches from his mountain walls. 
And like a thunderbolt he falls." 
Tennyson's " The Eaglet' 
An occasional visitor of rare occurrence, usually in 
autumn and winter ; formerly a resident of the Isle of 
Wight. 
Warner ^ describes an eyrie in the Culver Cliffs : — " The 
last eagle known to build in Culver Cliff (according to 
' ' * History of the Isle of Wight. " 1 795- 
