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weeping habit, so that in some cases they are hardly distinguishable 

 from the genuine weeping willow; but in other cases they come 

 very near ^. lasiandra. 



It does not seem strange that we should have a monoecious hybrid 

 of dioecious trees. The strangeness is that we do not always have 

 them. But among the willows I have never noticed such a result 

 before. 



NESTING HABITS OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE. 



BY H. R, TAYLOR. 



On February 20, 1889, I received the following telegram, to me 

 perfecdy intelligible: "Come to Sargents to-morrow; the eagles 

 are early." This was somewhat of a surprise, as I had regarded a 

 set of the golden eagle's eggs taken on February 29, 1888, as an 

 early laying. ^ Plainly the last three weeks of pleasant weather had 

 made the nesting season early. It is almost needless to say I packed 

 up hastily and was off for the eagle territory the following morning. 

 On arrival I met my friend B. at the station, and started off to visit 

 an eagle's nest which I found last year. 



On arriving in sight of the eagle's nest, which was in a rather 

 small live-oak near a road, we saw the male perched on a fence not 

 one hundred yards from the tree. When we came near he flew, 

 passing close to the nest, from which the female followed a few 

 moments later. 



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It did not take us long to climb the tree, when we were delighted 

 to find two eggs, handsomely marked. The nest was only thirty 

 feet from the ground, and was not a large one, being three .feet in 

 diameter, by eighteen inches in thickness. It was constructed of 

 oak sticks, poison-oak branches and sage brush; lined with green 

 and dry oak leaves and grass, with a sprig of the bright-red Tojwi 

 berries. Before reaching my friend's house, several miles distant, 

 we vjsited an old eagle's nest, which was in an oak about fifty feet 

 above the ground. It was a very bulky affair, formed of big oak 

 sticks, mustard stalks and pieces of grain sacks. The lining was 

 of Spanish moss and oak leaves. When we rode under the tree 

 we saw the great bird's tail projecting over the ed^^. She perceived 

 us soon and flew off, when we made the ascent and found one ^gg, 

 brightly marked with brown and lilac. 



