Aquila chrysaetos. In November, 1902, a Golden Eagle was captured 
alive in a steel trap at Belchertown by Edgar E. Mead ; the bird is now in 
captivity in the city park in Springfield. There is no other record of the 
appearance of an individual of this species near here for more than 
twenty-five years, and there are only three instances recorded previous to 
that time. 
Golden Eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos ) at Springfield, Mass. — -On the 
twentieth of last February a female Golden Eagle was taken in Somers, 
Connecticut, about ten miles from here. This specimen is now in the 
Museum of Natural History, in Springfield. 
During the last fifty years there is only one previous record of the occur- 
rence of this species in this vicinity. — Robert O. Morris, Springfield, 
Mass. 
