The Golden Eagle in New Jersey. — The publication of Mr. Stone’s 
excellent list of ‘ The Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey ’ 
reminds me of an unrecorded adult Aquila chrysaetos taken at Vineland, 
New Jersey, February 19, 1868, and now in my collection. It was sent to 
me in the flesh by a relative living in Vineland. My notebook says the 
bird was killed with a club, having gorged itself with portions of a 
deer recently shot. — Jno. H. Sage, Portland , Conn. 
Auk, XII, April, 1895, 
The Golden ^agle’iri' Nfew Jersey.*— §§Sfer^?recordf' of the recent 
occurrence of the Golden Eagle ( Aquila chrysaetos ) in the Eastern States 
are so rare that each one seems worthy of note. The following instance 
happened in New Jersey, on the Crosswicks Creek, about seven miles 
south of Trenton. The bird was captured by my friend the Rev. W. E. 
Daw, now of Towanda, Pa., in the late fall of 1888, as near as can now be 
ascertained. I append part of a recent communication received from him 
in regard to the Eagle, in answer to my note of inquiry for particulars 
regarding it. Efforts made to obtain more accurate information from the 
taxidermist as to the exact date of capture have entirely failed. 
“ regard to the ‘ bird of freedom ’ m3' memory is very rusty as to the 
time when it was shot, but the place I remember distinctly. I was sitting 
in my boat up Crosswicks Creek, quietly waiting for squirrels in the chest- 
nut woods of Alfred Reid (I being somewhat hidden by the bushes to 
which the boat was tied), when the Eagle sailed overhead, and was about 
to light in a tree when I fired a charge of duck shot and broke his wing 
neai the shoulder. He fell in the water and was floating down stream 
when I fired squirrel shot in his head and he was still. I have looked up 
my diary but can find no record of the date when I shot him, but think 
it was late in the fall in 1888 ; time of day, about five o’clock. The bird is 
still in my possession. He measured 6 feet 4 inches from tip to tip. Iam 
positive he is a Golden Eagle for he is feathered to the toes and has the 
characteristic arrow-head feathers on head.” — William C. Braislin, 
Brooklyn , N. V. 
