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cudbright), where in 1684, as is recorded, " the eagles 
tsS^W M ' u """^ and in 
1837, W Macgilhvray writes that the Golden Eagle "has 
been extn:pated from the south of Scotland, as hfs nearty 
therefot 71 Z l '""^ """^'^ ''t presumption' 
early m the last century seems not unreasonable. " Old 
David Tweedie, in his day a famous anglers' guide on 
Tweedsxde when interviewed in 1834, when he wL in Z 
e.ghty-th.rd year, is said to have stated that ' there is not 
one salmon or trout now for twenty that were found in his 
mg the glonous green hills of his native valley, that he 
fn i^^* P-rs of eagles 
Dr Grierson notes in 1872 in his "Running Catalogue 
of the Contents of my Museum," "A Golden Eagle was foS 
dead on the Bum Hill (Morton), in the year 1825 It 
had been shot at the previous day by some party from 
Drumlanrig, the specimen is still preserved at the farX 
house of Burn by Mr. Nivison." L. Gracie, a daughSr 
of Mr. Nivison, confirms the above, and informs me that 
the specimen remained in the possession of her father till 
his death m 1874, when it passed to her youngest brother 
t'ilT ?r ^°l-''»--P*-. while at his d'eath 
taken by his family to Walsall. Probably the following from 
the Bum nes and Galloway Courier of October 17th 182^ 
refers to this same bird : " Mr. Shanks has . . . in his bosses 
sion at present a very fine specimen of the largest kTnd of 
British Eagle which wa« found drowned in a loch near 
the head of the parish of Morton. That the bird had 
however, been previously shot at was sufficiently pS 
when It came to be stuffed, and though eagles are enemies 
* Large Descr. Galloway, p, 134. 
^Edin. Journ. Nat. Hist., 1837, Vol. I., p. 94. 
t Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc, December 18th, 1903. 
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