5C4: LORD LILPORD ON RAPTORIAL BIRDS IN THE LILFORD AVIARIES. 
I. 
NOTES ON KAPTOPJAL PIPES IN THE 
LILFOED AVI.VPIES. 
Py The Eight Honorable Lord Lilford. 
Read 2 ^th May, i888. 
Having been informed by a JMember of your Society that some 
notes from me on my living collection of birds at Lilford -would 
be acceptable to those interested in ornithology, I venture to 
enclose the following remarks and observations. 
I have for the last forty years, more or less, kept various birds 
alive in captivity, and having always had a strong predilection for 
the Raptorcs, many interesting birds of that class have, at one 
time or another, been inhabitants of the Lilford aviaries. I 
therefore propose to begin with tlie Eagles now existing in my 
possession, and observing the old rule of seniores pnores, 
commence with the White-tailed Eagle [Haliaetm alhicilla), of 
which species a fine female is the oldest inhabitant of my vivaria. 
This bird was taken from the nest in the Coomeragh ^Mountains, 
CO. Waterford, in the early spring of 1854, and has since led an 
uneventful, but, I trust, not unhappy, existence at Lilford. She 
laid an egg, without making any nest, in 1862, for the first time, 
and two in the following year, but has since abstained from this 
profitless performance. She is now in magnificent plumage, and 
has moulted very regularly throughout her life. Having been 
bullied by a boy who had partial cliarge of her, during the first 
part of her career at Lilford, she chose an opportunity, and got 
him down upon his back, with the talons of one foot deeply driven 
into his thigh whilst with the other she clutched his jacket and 
