Falco Chryfaetos. Lin. Syji. I. p. 125. L’Aigle dore. BriJ. Orn. I. p. 431. This bird is in length three feet ; in breadth, feven feet; and weighs twelve pounds: the bill is a dark blue: cere yellow : eyes dark brown: the head and neck rich yellow brown: general colour of the plumage is brown; with yel- lowilh edges to the feathers: quills chocolate colour, with white fhafts: tail deep brown: legs yellow, feathered quite to the toes: the claws are remark ably large and hooked. Thefe birds are rare in England; have been fometimes known to migrate into Caernarvonlhire, and to breed on Snowdon Hills: they are alfo met with now and then in Scotland; but are found in greater plenty in Ireland, where they breed on the mountains. This, and the Ringtail, are very deftruftive to fawns, lambs, kids, and all kinds of game, particularly in the breeding feafon, when they bring a vaft quantity of prey to their young. Smith, in his hiftory of Kerry, relates, that a poor man in that county got a comfortable fubfiftence for his family, during a fummer of famine, out of an eagles neft, by robbing the eaglets of the food brought by the old ones; whofe attendance he protracted beyond the natural time, by clipping the wings of the eaglets to retard their flight. We have two inftances upon record in Scotland, of eagles carrying infants to their neft, as food for the young eaglets.