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of the very characteristic down of young Eagles, whicli I have pre- 

 served. It was in a great many pieces ; but I determined to try to 

 put them together, and I succeeded far beyond my expectations. I 

 commenced operations by taking the skin oiF the inside of the pieces 

 as I fitted them together, and then I fixed on them strips of foreign 

 letter-paper with very strong gum-arabic. When I had, after three 

 or four days' work, gathered them into as many large groups, I had 

 great difficulty in joining them together evenly, but at last succeeded 

 by relaxing one or two of the paper bands and squeezing one of the 

 pieces in the direction contrary to that in which it had warped, and 

 then holding them together until the gum on the last slips was 

 partly dried. 



§ 34. r/^r^e.— Argyllshire, 1853. 



These eggs, two of them being unblown, were received for me during 

 my absence in Lapland by Mr. Edge, who succeeded in satisfactorily 

 emptying the full ones. They are from the same nest as those I 

 took 23 April, 1851, as I am assured in a letter from my guide at 

 that time. 



§ 35. 7%;-ee.— Argyllshire, 10 April, 1854. 



These eggs were sent, blown, to Mr. Edge, with a letter, dated 

 "29 April, 1854," containing the following passages: — "You will 

 receive three eggs of the Golden Eagle, which were taken on the 10th 

 of this month. I need not say anything about the place where they 

 were taken, as you and Mr. Wolley were in the nest when you were 

 here. I am sorry to say there is not, to my knowledge, an Eagle's 

 nest within the bounds of my forest this year, as I have searched all 

 the old places where they used to build. As I told you before, in a 

 few years there will not be such a thing as a Golden Eagle seen in 

 Scotland." 



[§ 36. Three.— ArgjMme, 18 April, 1855. " E. N. ipse." 



O. W. tab. iii. fig. 2. 



These eggs, from the same eyrie as those mentioned in the four preceding 

 sections, were taken by Mr. Edward Newton, to whom Mr. Wolley had given 

 the introductions necessary for enjoying the pleasure, now so rarely within 

 the power of an Englishman, of taking, with his own hands, in this island a 

 nest of the Golden Eagle. The following is condensed from the account which 

 Mr. E. Newton gives of his exploit : — 



" On the evening of April 17th I arrived at the little inn, and of course my 

 first inquiries were for my guide. I was told he had been there that afternoon, 

 and had left word that he had gone to the hill, and would return a little later. 



