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He seemed to be looking down, but occasionally turned his head 
from side to side. Once he dropped momentarily his heavily feathered 
legs. 
Aquila chrysaetos (Linn.). 
Golden Eagle. 
Very rare permanent resident. 
Audubon records one of these birds for southern Labrador in these 
words: “At Labrador, we saw an individual sailing, at the height of 
a few yards, over the moss-covered surface of the dreary rocks.” 
Packard says that specimens of the Golden Eagle have been procured 
in the Ungava district, and that it breeds in the northeastern portions 
among the hills. A pair also bred at the “ Forks” in the Ungava 
district. Low states that it “breeds at head of Lake Michikamau. 
Seen in several places along upper Hamilton River.” Spreadborough 
thought he saw one near the “Forks” above Ungava, and, at Fort 
Chimo, in September, 1896, he saw a skin of one shot a few days before 
on the river. Bryant saw a single Golden Eagle at Bradore in 1860. 
[Haliaeetus albicilla (Linn.). Gray Sea Eagle.— Weiz stated that this 
bird breeds at Okkak, but he was probably in error and confused this species 
with the Bald Eagle.] 
Haliaeetus leucocephalus alascanus C. H. Townsend. 
Northern Bald Eagle. 
Rare summer resident. 
Frazar saw one at Cape Whittle on the southern coast and states 
that it is “not a rare summer resident, as I heard of about six pair that 
bred at different places along the coast and always in trees.” Low 
saw a pair on the Hamilton River below Grand Falls on April 28th. 
Cartwright obtained three eagle’s eggs on April 30, 1775, near Cape 
Charles. On May 30, 1776, in Sandwich Bay he records two eggs 
of eagles, and again on June 11, 1773, three eggs. The species is not 
mentioned. A pair of this species was seen on August 17, 1896, by 
A. P. Low near Ungava Bay. 
