more f req 1 It'll 1 1 y than those of ea^^les 

 attacking antelope kids. 



E. S. Cameron ( lU(is) has jjfiven 

 this graphic acctnuit of the attack 

 of several golden eagles on an adnlt 

 antelope in Montana: 



The ea.iiles had obviously .stampeclod a 

 bunch of antelope and then cut out a 

 victim by a combined jittack. Altogether 

 the antelope could barely have covered 

 three hundred yards afti-r the tirst attack 

 by the eagles. 



The following observation was 

 made by Willard W. Lahninn, biol- 

 ogist. United States Fish and Wild- 

 life Service, on the Garcia Ranch 

 near Magdalena, N. Mex., on June 

 19, 1943: 



Milton H. Webster and I jtimped an 

 antelope and two kids this morning, and 

 on the way back we passed over the same 

 road. In the wheel track was a dead 

 antelope kid with an adult golden eagle 

 feeding on the carcass. About one-quar- 

 ter mile from where the carcass of the 



kid and tlie eagle were seen, were a 

 female anteloiH^ and one kid. \ot over 

 one-half hour had passed since we had 

 previously seen the female and the two 

 kids. 



Figure 4 pictures the Aictim of this 

 episode. 



Despite the authenticity of such 

 re])orts. determining the importance 

 of t'agh' predation in anteloj)e sur- 

 vival is not easy. This becomes ob- 

 vious if one considers that compe- 

 tent observers (Williams and Mat- 

 teson 1948) believe there is a greater 

 al)un(lance of breeding golden eagles 

 in AVyoming on the basis of com- 

 parable area, than in any other west- 

 ern State: yet, through various 

 management practices which placed 

 litth' or no weight on the influence 

 of the golden eagle, a remnant ante- 

 lope p()j)iihition of fewer than 5,000 

 in 1900 was increased to a point 

 where more than 41,000 were har- 

 vested in 1952. 



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FioiKK 4. — Keniaius nf ;nilcl(iiPf kid killed l)y a golden eagle near .Magilaleiia. .\. .Me\. 

 June lit, I'Jlo. (Photograph l)y W. W. Lahinim.) 



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