34 AQUILA CHRYSAETUS. 



^ 40. T^^fo.— Argyllshire, 1853. 



0. W. tab. G. 



These eggs, already blown, were received and taken care of for me 

 by Mr. Edge in the summer of 1853. It appears that they are from 

 a nest in a glen visited by me 15th April, 1851, and in which there were 

 no eggs that year, though a man on that very day had seen a bird 

 about the rock. The nest was not directly visible from above ; nor 

 indeed from any place could we see entirely into it. I descended by 

 a rope, and, looking down a fcAV feet above it, was able to see the whole 

 of it. It was quite fresh, made of large branches of the Scotch Fir, 

 as green as if growing, with some heather beneath, and lined with 

 Luzula. It was a large mass of sticks, and projected from the rock 

 more than any nest I had previously seen, — there being very little 

 ledge overhanging it, though there was a projecting sloping ledge 

 partially covering it towards one side '. 



§ 41. 7^;w.— Argyllshire, 19 April, 1855. " E. N." 



O. W. tab. iii. fig. 1. 



These eggs were taken on the day above mentioned, in the pre- 

 sence of Mr. Edward Newton, whose accomit of the nest is as 

 follows : — 



" The next morning we were to visit the second nest of which my 

 guide to the previous one had spoken [§ 36] . Accordingly about ten 

 o'clock I went up to his house. He proposed showing me a Deer-himt, 

 as he wanted to ' blood ' some young hounds, and took with him three 

 couple. On the way nothing particular occurred. We stopped every 

 now and then to look round the hills for any Deer that might be near 

 enough or in an advantageous place, but we saw none. Presently 

 rounding a corner, some six miles from home, we saw an Eagle about a 

 mile off, flying low over a hiU. Just under that hill my companion 

 told me the nest was, and soon after he pointed out its position to me. 

 It was on the side of a small steep ravine, perhaps some sixty yards 

 wide by twenty deep. This ravine we crossed perhaps a quarter of a 

 mile below the nest. As we did so, the old bird flew out : she went 

 down the glen past us, and then soared high away to the westward. 



^ [In July 1862, Mr. Wolf visited a Golden Eagle's nest, which was situated 

 very near the place of that above mentioned, and was probably used by the same 

 pair of birds. It then contained one young one ; and I have again to acknowledge 

 his kindness in allowing Mr. Jury to copy the drawing which he made of it 

 (tab. G).— Ed.] 



