very long, fiiarp, and ftrong, the hind ones bentg more than 
three inches in length. The female correfponds in colour, 
except being flightly daflied with white on the under fide ; it 
is confidcrably larger than the male, fometimes being nine feet 
in breadth, and four in length, and weighing fixteen pounds. 
This fpecies builds in the moft inaccefTible rocks in the north 
of England, Ireland, Scotland, and fome of the Scottifh ifles, 
it has alfo been known to breed in North Wales, but in all 
thefe parts is' very rare ; it lays three or four white eggs. 
About two years ago one of thefe birds, a female, was fhot 
Hear Brompton, in Middlefex, and was prefented by the 
Compte de Vandes to the London Mufeum, from which 
fpecimen our figure was taken ; within a week of the fame 
time, a male of this fpecies was fhot near Godalming, Surrey. 
The Golden Eagle feeds on hares, rabbits, lambs, and the 
larger kinds of poultry ; *^ and in order to extirpate them from 
the Orkney-Iflands, there is a law which entitles any one 
killing an Eagle, to a hen out of every houfe in the parilli 
where it may be killed." 
