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referred to above "which was shot and slightly wounded 
at Niton, by W. Dawes, Esq., and for some years after- 
wards was kept chained in the grounds at the Hermitage. 
The example referred to in the "Zoologist" for 1857 
as having been obtained at Haslar, had been brought home 
from the Crimea by soldiers. 
Wise in his " New Forest " quotes Gilpin's eagles as 
" golden eagles," but it is most improbable that they were 
of that species. " The Eagle Tree," he says, " at the 
extreme west end of Vinney Ridge, commemorates where 
a sea eagle was shot, some fifty years ago, by a Forest 
keeper." 
In the Hart collection is a specimen obtained on 
December 4th, 1871. 
Mr. Meade- Waldo says ^ those that visit the New 
Forest district are usually immature birds, but in July, 
1885, he saw "a fine adult male rise out of a bog on 
the Wilverley Hills, and after taking one or two circles 
came over us at a good height, the sun shining through his 
white tail. I afterwards found that this eagle roosted most 
of the summer on the beacon on Hengistbury Head. I 
saw a white-tailed eagle sitting on the ground in the 
centre of a large seed-field in December, 1895, close to 
Micheldever station." 
About 1886, a white-tailed eagle was shot at Cadland 
and is now preserved in Cadland House, and in the winter 
of 1888-9, another specimen was at large in the same 
neighbourhood, and remained there for some two or 
three months. 
In the Earl of Malmesbury's collection at Heron Court 
are two specimens killed on the estate — one, a magnificent 
^ " Victoria History of Hants." 
