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and <,'oing o\'er to tlie nest, I found it contained seven e<^f;s. I also saw the male, and stran,£;e 

 to say he had nine young ones about seven weeks old running with him. The water is now 

 hnver than it has been for the past four years, hut tlie old birds would ha\'e to swim for at least 

 three hundred yards before they could reach the island. 1 also found the nest where the young 

 ones had been hatched, and in addition to the broken egg shells it also contained an addled egg. 

 There was plenty of food for them on the island. Emus are excellent swimmers ; some of them 

 used to swim the ^^acl]uarie Iviver regularly eveiy day to feed m the paddocks on the opposite 

 side adjoming the river. While at iUtckiinguy on the 2nd July, 1903, I had to pay a visit to 

 another station called Willie, and in crossing one of tlie paddocks, Willie Warrina, about four 

 miles away from home, riding (juietly through a heavily timbered bit of country, 1 heard some 

 Crows making a long cawing noise, and when nearly through I noticed a great number of them in 

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anything about to cause the noise, so I rode over to the place, thinking perhaps they had, or 

 could see, a ewe lambing, and they intended having a feast ; but going along to the place 1 saw 

 two very large Wedge-tailed Eagles (Unnrtiis andax) on the next tree, and I disturbed an Emu 

 on her nest with eleven eggs; up she jumped and off down the plains as fast as she could go, 

 the two Eagles close behind, the Crows following one of the Eagles, I should say about forty 

 feet over the Emu, the other Eagle on a level with the bird. After a race of about one hundred 

 and fifty to two hundred yards, the top Eagle made a swoop and struck the Emu just behind 

 the head, and tore all the skin and pulled it over her head, breaking her neck, and she struck the 

 ground very heavily, a great shower of feathers flying for six or eight yards from the place where 

 she fell. I rode down to see what had happened, and there she was dead and the Eagles very 

 busy having breakfast. They would not leave, so that I returned to the nest and removed the 

 eggs to a place of safety, while I went on my journey ; on returning 1 called to see the remains, 

 but nothing was left but bare bones, the Eagles being still there ; one of them was so gorged it 



