Kaliaeetus leucocephalus 
: Concord, 
1897 . 
Nov. 21 . 
! (No. 2). 
Mas s . 
creature! ", I said to myself as I put ray glass on it. It ap- 
peared to be mottled all over with white on a nearly black 
ground. Holden asked in a whisper "What is it?" I replied, 
"I do not know; I have never seen anything like it before". 
All the while we were standing about fifty yards off. 
I now advanced covering the bird partially by the stems 
of some birches. It roust have seen me but it did not move in 
the least. When I ’was within about twenty-five yards I felt 
sure of it and taking careful aim at its head gave it a charge 
of #4 shot. As it fell over backwards it threw up its legs 
and thinking that I saw feathered tarsi I shouted out with 
exultation "It is a Golden Eagle!". When I reached it, how- 
ever, I found that it was only an immature Bald Eagle with an 
unusual amount of white on the back and breast. It showed no 
signs of having ever been confined. What made it look so very 
large is difficult to understand for it measured only 7 ft. 5 
inches from tip to tip. 
Almost the strangest part of the story remains to be 
told. On the crest of the ridge a little above where Holden 
had first seen the bird flying we found its tracks in the 
snow. Following the trail back we discovered that it had 
walked through the brush - which was dense and overrun with 
greenbriar in places - nearly the entire length of the island, 
