WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. 
Ill 
in reference to both these specimens, preventing me from viewing and reporting 
upon them, I should consider that if these two birds ever did occur, there was 
some ulterior reason for keeping the matter quiet, and I mention it in order that 
observers in the county who are in the secret may communicate with me. The 
person reported to have shot both specimens is William Henry Johnson, a farmer, 
of Braunstone by Leicester. Mr. T. Andrew, of King’s Stand, Leicester Forest East, 
informs me that he shot a Rough-legged Buzzard at that place in November, 1888. 
In Rutland. — I am enabled to add this bird to the list for this county, on the 
authority of the Rev. J. B. Reynardson, who informs me that one was shot in 
Holywell Wood in 1854, and is now preserved at Holywell. 
WHITE-TAILED E AGILE. Haliaiitm alhicilla (Linnaeus). 
“ Cinereous Eagle ” (the young). 
Of rare and accidental occurrence. — Harley, in his fair-copied MS. ‘ Synopsis 
of the Vertebrated Animals of the County of Leicester’ (1840-55), so often quoted 
in these pages, wrote ; — “ A fine example was captured by Mr. Adams in Bradgate 
Park on the 26th day of December, 1840. Shortly after it was shot the writer 
examined it, measured it, and found it to be 87 inches in the stretch of its 
wings, and 37 inches in length from the extreme curve of its upper mandible 
to the middle feathers of its tail. The wings, I observed, and also its tail, 
were much abraded, denoting captivity, as it was thought by us ; but on our 
applying to iMr. Yarrell on the subject of the capture, for some information, that 
scientific naturalist informed us that such characteristic marks were not unusual 
nor at all singular. 
“ The account of the capture of its congener, the Grolden Eagle, as narrated 
in Mr. Babington’s list of Birds, published in Potter’s work on the forest of 
Charnwood, is no less than the present species now under notice, and described 
by him very ingeniously by mistake. The identical specimen, however, is in the 
possession of Lord Stamford, preserved for the examination and curious enquiry 
of the virtuoso and faunist.” By this it would appear that the statement under 
the head “ Grolden Eagle,” in Appendix ‘Potter,’ p. 65, is not only incorrect in the 
most important point, but is probably incorrect in date (April, 1841); and, indeed, 
the late Rev. Churchill Babington informed me that he was not responsible for the 
insertion of this, it having been communicated to him when writing the list, by 
Potter, who had not sufficient ornithological knowledge to discriminate between 
the two species. 
At p. 65 Appendix ‘ Potter,’ Mr. Churchill Babington wrote : — “ A specimen 
killed at Swannington by ]\L\ William Burton. The head and wings only were 
preserved. These I have seen.” Mr. Macaulay records one, which he saw, shot 
by Sir Gr. Beaumont’s keeper at Coleorton, 5th Nov., 1879 (see ‘Mid. Nat.,’ 1882, 
p. 62). It was seen, some days before it was killed, feeding on a Rabbit. Mr. 
jMacaulay adds that, in the autumn of 1881, Sir Cr. Beaumont saw an Eagle 
