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dined ; and I should have shot the eagle had not a second 
fight with some gulls made him rise again and fly up 
to the Isle of Wight cliffs." 
The next day he " saw the eagle again on wing, and 
sailed after him for miles, till we saw him pitched with 
five crows flapping over him, but he would not remain 
long enough in one place for us to * settle his hash.' " 
Of its occurrence in the New Forest, Gilpin wrote 
in 1834 I — " I have heard of a pair of eagles, which took 
possession of a part of the forest called King's Wood, 
where they eluded all the arts of the keeper, and continued 
their annual depredations for several years. Some time 
ago an eagle was killed, after three discharges, near 
Ashley Lodge, and was extended, like the imperial arms, 
in the court-room of the King's House, at Lyndhurst. 
, . . . Several deer were found by the keepers of the 
New Forest dead, and with their eyes torn out. After 
a careful watch, a deer was discovered in great agony, 
struggling with an eagle, which had seized him by the 
head and shoulders. The keeper fired and killed the bird, 
which was beautifully preserved, and it afterwards formed 
one of the objects in Bullock's London Museum." 
Bury recorded ("Zoologist," 1844,) that, about 1837, 
one was seen at the Hermitage, in the Isle of Wight, which 
was attracted by a tame one kept there, and remained for 
some hours in the neighbourhood ; the newspapers of the 
following week recorded the capture of a white-tailed 
eagle in the New Forest. It will be noted that this date 
corresponds with one of those seen by Colonel Hawker off 
Hurst. . . 
In the Museu4Ti at Newport is the. tame specimen 
' Forest Scenery.'^ • 1834. 
