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of The Lews : and all right-thinking sportsmen and naturalists cannot 

 but admire such provision having been made ; and this was done 

 at Mr. Platt's own request. We may rest assured that the Sea 

 Eagles were not molested, and the shepherds have strict orders 

 concerning them. 



Sea Eagles are sometimes foolish enough to occupy very simple 

 places. Such appears to have been the case only a few years ago, 

 when a pair occupied a rock -face very easily reached. The 

 consequence was as might be expected the young birds were taken; 

 but the two men who took them had the impertinence to offer them 

 for sale to the proprietor and the sporting tenant, who do the best 

 they can to preserve Eagles. 



SITE OF NEST ( + ) OF WHITE-TAILED EAGLE, RONEVAL, SOUTH UIST. 



(From a Sketch by Mr. Colin M'Vean.) 



It will prove satisfactory to lovers of our wild Fauna to be 

 assured that scarcely any diminution has taken place in the number 

 of inhabited eyries since the date of the issue of our volume. 



[SPARROW HAWK (Accipiter nisus], p. 87. Although not 

 bracketed in our "Fauna of the Outer Hebrides," I now believe 

 it ought to be. I suspect that all records relating to this species 

 as a Hebridean bird may prove of insufficient value, and ought to 

 be bracketed : and this is borne out by many negative statements. 

 Thus, Mr. M'Elfrish writes (November 1901): "During fifteen 

 years I have been here, and with constant observation, I have 

 never seen a Sparrow Hawk in any of the islands."] 



GREENLAND FALCON (Fako candicans\ p. 87. The one men- 

 tioned by Dr. M'Rury ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 1894, p. 203) is 

 in the possession of Harvie-Brown at Dunipace, and was given to 

 him by Mrs. MacGillivray. 



