Aquila chrysaetos canadensis. Maino (Lake Umbagog). 1873. Aug. 29. Hoard the unmistakable cry of this Eagle in the woods on Cambridge River. (As I now know what I heard then was an cry of a Hawk than was a Golden Eye. W.B. 1913) 1879. June 7. Ryesson tells me that a pair of Golden Eagles breed every season on the face of a vertical cliff on Speckled Mountain in Grafton Notch. Some twenty years ago a party of young men lowered a comrade over the precipice with a long rope. He found the nest in a shallow cave or den, and about it the remains of ducks, goose, lambs, setc. The young Eagles, however, had left it. 1880. May 15. A mile or two above the Notch I was shown a fine Golden Eagle, nailed to the trunk of a pine by the road- side. The history of its capture is as follows: A woman living in one of those weather beaten little farm- houses peculiar to New England, kept a large flock of geese which were her pride; one Sunday afternoon in August (1879) the family being away and a little girl about nine years old the only one at home, an Eagle sud- denly pounced upon one of the Geese. The child hearing the outcry ran out and attacked the bird with a club, but instead of trying to escape he defended himself bold- ly at the same time clinging to his prize. The child becoming frightened at his fierce aspect, threw the club aside and assailed him at a safer distance with stones, finally disabling him, when her parents returned and settled the conflict by wringing his neck. This Eagle was evidently a very old bird. He had positively no white on his tail. He is probably one of the pair that has nested for so many years on the cliff of Speckled Mountain.