77/r Lamwrrg^-icr In Capf/r/fi/. ;',!') 



parcntlN" makf no iini)ros8ioii on a \"u!tm'in<' stoiiiai'li, and tlic 

 tlu- troulilr svtiled itself. 



Tlu'iT is no need to enter here into ili<' plunia.g-e 

 assumed liy tlie tiird as it l),'eaine lleducd. It has already 

 been (h'scrilied at leui^-'th. {Jniirnal, i^oinbay N.M.S., xxi., 

 p. (i(;4). 



^\'llen the hii-d was safely fledged I attacdiod jesse:? 

 and a long leash to its feet and fastened him by a largo stump 

 in my eompound: here ho lived for some lime in apparent 

 (■ont(Mit, hut sufTerod l>adly from the heat which he seemed to 

 feel vei'y inueh. This 1 Iiave notired in other (•ai)tive Rap- 

 toi-iai liirds kept during tlio hot weatlier in the pUiins. 



Once when a l>ig snake, some 4 feet hiiig, was killed in 

 the compound. 1 p-ut it hefore tlu^ Lammergeier to see whether 

 h(^ had an> use for it: Ivo had! The snake was swallowed, 

 head lii'st, imdi hy inch, without any her.itation. 



In .Iul>- I was transferred from Eawal Pindi to Fero- 

 zejiorc and it was rather a problem how the bird was to be 

 taken on the journey. The matter was solved by the con- 

 struction of a sort of wooden bicycle crate, which went in 

 the van. 



1 was nuich anuised by the interest shown at various 

 -tation. in iun' uoacI baggage: amongst other inci lents I heard 

 one "knowing" man giving a couple of friends a lecture on 

 the habits of "the Black Eagle." 



At Ferozepore it so chanced that there was a vacant 

 room in my bungalow which was set aside for the bird, which 

 wan let loose in it. This room had a smooth cement floor, 

 so it was kept perfectly clean by a daily washing with 

 phenol and water: the bird, of course, was fed on tVei-.h clean 

 food — either birds or goat entrails; so the room could be kept 

 quite sweet. 



The man who (deanod the room out suddenly Ix^came 

 an objec^ of the most violent hatred on the part of " Om Sloper- 

 gas " (a£. someone christened the bird — rather a good name as 

 expressing his clumsy way). Prol}ab!y a sly dig with the 

 broom or some similar insult was responsible for this, but 

 whatever the cause, the result was that I had always to l>e 

 present to keep the i;eace while th(> room was being washed. 

 The bird used to beconu' perfectly furious, his ft>athers stood on 



