Dutcher, Rare Long Island Birds. 
Aquila chrysaetos. Golden Eagle. — This specimen was brought to 
Mr. Akhurst alive by a negro who caught the bird at Canarsie. To 
prevent its escape it was wrapped in a piece of old fish-net. The price 
paid for the bird was $5.00, which sum was furnished by the late Mr. Van 
Brunt Wyckoff of Bay Ridge. No date or sex is given. 
Auk X. July, 1803 p 274. 
Birds of the Adirondack Region. 
C.H,Merriana. 
I3 2. Aquila chrysaetus, canadensis (Linn.) Ridgiuay. Golden 
Eagle. — R are. 
Ball N, O.O, 0,Oot. 1882, p.233 
Capture of the Golden Eagle at Albany, N. Y. — On the 15th 
of February of the present year, I secured a fine adult male Golden Eagle, 
captured in this vicinity a short while previously by a hunter, by whom it 
was kept in captivity for some time. The Eagle, although not seriously 
or painfully injured, utterly refused all food until, in a moment of passion, 
he flew at his captor, who had barely time to strike a blow with a heavy 
stick which he had with him. Fortunately for the hunter the blow was 
fatal, and in this condition the late “monarch of the mountain forests” 
was brought to me. Owing to sickness, I was unable to prepare the Eagle 
myself, and so sent it to Mr. C. J. Maynard to be mounted for my collec- 
tion. — G. A. LlNTNER. Albany. TV. T J Jl 
- G. A. Lintner, Albany, IV. T. 
Bull, N, 0.0, 8,Apii. 1883 , p. 
Golden Eagle at Shelter Island, New York.-A fine specimen of this 
noble bird was shot at Shelter Island Heights on the 19th of last October 
and brought me to be mounted. It was a female, in young of the year 
plumage, and exhibited the following measurements (in inches) taken 
before skinning: length 36.25, extent 82.25, wing 24.87, tail 13.75 culmen 
1.75, gape 2.70, tarsus 4.25. The craw and stomach contained the re- 
mains of a rabbit. The young man who shot it stated that it was in the 
act of swooping down upon him, being within a few yards, when he 
fired, and it fell dead at his feet. This is the first instance of the occur- 
rence of this species here that has come to my notice, and it is a rare rec- 
ord for Long Island.— W. W. Worthington, Shelter Island Heights 
N ' T ' &U3£| VIII, J an, 189!, P. *• ? 
Notes from Our Correspondents.— John Burroughs 
(Esopus-on-Hudson) says: I have seen an extraordinary 
number of eagles on the Hudson this Winter. Yesterday 
from the car window I saw eight in the vicinity of West 
Point— four bald eagles, at least, and three black or gold- 
en eagles, and one I could not determine. The black 
eagles were sitting on the floating cakes of ice, or hovering 
over them. The bald eagles were high in air, sailing round 
and round. Passing down the Hudson the last of Decem- 
ber I saw three black eagles on the ice. About the first of 
December I saw several golden eagles in the fields near 
Kingston, and one day soon after a bald eagle flew along 
by my house. Why this great flight of eagles? Have oth- 
thers observed and noted this? Have you noticed how easy 
the pine grosbeak is tamed? I saw a lady in the Jersey 
City depot the other day, with one in a cage, that had only 
been caught a few weeks, and it would hop down into her 
hand and feed. It was very fond of apple seeds. She said 
it sang finely. I have seldom seen a bird that looked so 
clean and healthy in captivity George A. Boardman 
Auk, XIV, Apr., 1897, P 7 - 
JLt/wvvA Tlcu) tyinM. - 
Aquila chrysaetos. — A Golden Eagle was shot, wounded and captured 
at Clinton early in May, 1896, and was kept in captivity for some time. 
Our second record. — Egbert Bagg, Utica. N. V. 
Capture of the Golden Eagle at Gravesend, L. I. — On Octo- 
ber 6, 1877, 1 had the good fortune to procure a male Golden Eagle ( Aquila 
chrysaetus) in this vicinity. He was a fine, full-grown specimen, and gave 
the following measurements: length, 32.75 inches ; extent, 78.25; wing, 
22.50; tail, 14.00. — Frank E. Johnson, Gravesend, L. I. 
Bull N. O.O. 4, July, 1879, p. 
