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GOLDEN EAGLE. 
having’ been a migration from the more northern provinces of Europe 
(probably furnished by the pine-forests of Norway, Sweden, &c.,) from 
the circumstance of its arrival being simultaneous with that of large 
flights of the woodcock, fieldfare, and redwing. Although I had never 
before witnessed the actual arrival of the gold-crested regulus, I had 
long felt convinced, from the great and sudden increase of the species 
during the autumnal and hyemal months, that our indigenous birds 
must be augmented by a body of strangers, making these shores their 
winter’s resort. 
‘‘ A more extraordinary circumstance in the economy of this bird 
took place during the same winter,^ viz. the total disappearance of the 
whole tribe, natives as well as strangers, throughout Scotland and the 
north of England, This happened towards the conclusion of the 
month of January, 1823, and a few days previous to the long-conti- 
nued snow-storm, so severely felt through the northern counties of 
England, and along the eastern parts of Scotland. The range and 
point of this migration are unascertained, but it must probably have 
been a distant one, from the fact of not a single pair having returned 
to breed, or pass the succeeding summer, in the situations they had 
been known always to frequent. Nor was one of the species to be 
seen till the following October, or about the usual time, as I have 
above stated, for our receiving an annual accession of strangers to our 
own indigenous birds.”* 
GOLDEN EAGLE (Aquila Chrysaetosy Vigors.) 
ADULT. 
*Falco Chrysaetos, Linn, Syst. 1. p. 125. 5. — Faun. Suec. p. 54. — Gmel. Syst. 1. 
p. 256. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. p. 12. sp. 8. — Raii, Syn. p. 6. 1. — Muller, No. 59. 
— Briss. 1. p. 431. 7.. — Ib. 8vo. p. 124. — L’Aigle Royal, Buff, pi, Enl. 410. 
the female — Ib. Le Grand Aigle. — L’Aigle Commun, et L’Aigle Royal, Cuv. 
Reg. Anim. 1. p. 314. — Aigle Royal, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 1. p. 38. 2d edit. — 
Golden Eagle, Br. Zool. 1. No. 42. t. 16. — lb. fol. p. 61. t. A. — Arct. Zool, 2. 
p. 214. a. — Lewins Br. Birds, 1. t. 2. — Lath. Syn. 1. p. 31. — Ib. Supp. p. 10. 
— Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. — Ib. Supp. — Will. fAngl.) p. 58. — Bewick's Br. Birds, 
p. 5. — Wale. Syn. 1. 1. 3. — Shaw’s Zool. 7. p. 75. 
YOUNG. 
Falco fulvus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 125. 6. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 256. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 
l.p. 10. 4. — Falco niger, Gmel. p. 359. — Chrysaetos cauda annulo albo cincta, 
Raii, Syn. p. 6. 2. — Will. (Angl.) p. 28. — Aquila fulva, Meyer, Vdg. Liv. und. 
Esthl. p. 2 L’Aigle commun, Buff. Ois. 1. p. 86. — Ib. pi. Enl. 409. an 
accurate figure of the young bird Black Eagle, Br. Zool. p. 165. No. 43. — 
Ring-tail Eagle, Br. Zool. fob p. 62. — Will. (Angl.) p. 59. — Lath. Syn. 1. p. 
32 Ib. Supp. p. 10. — Lewin’s Br. Birds, 1 . t. 3.— Mont. Orn, Diet. — Ib. Supp.— 
Bewick’s Br. Birds, p. 7. — Low’s Faun. Oread, p. 31. — Shaw’s Zool. 7. p. 71. — 
Wern. Tran. 4. 428. 434. — Flem. Br. Anim.p. 52. 3. — Selby, pi. 1. 1'*'. and 2. 
P-4. 
* See Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, vol. v. p. 397 
