44 EGYPTIAN BIRDS 



on doing me serious damage, my prisoner strove 

 with me. That was in the evening ; very early 

 the next day I went right up the same place, 

 and as there were no feathers or other marks of 

 murder, I sincerely hope the poor bird got safely 

 away to some sheltering cave, there to be welcomed 

 by wife or husband, as the case might be, and 

 regaled with great store of such food as Eagle 

 Owls love. When with me, sardines, scraps of 

 meat, and bits of bony chicken were readily eaten, 

 but a great dislike was shown to being watched 

 at meals. 



