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not until one of the men had ahnost trodden upon her that 

 she rose from four fresh eg-gs. One clutch was slightly 

 marked with red ; all the others were white. 



BUTEO VULGARIS. 



Common in the pine- woods. Incubated eggs were found 

 on April 14<th, and young some days old on April 16th. The 

 clutch generally consists of two eggs, and we only once saw 

 three in Spain. 



Aquila pennata. 



The Booted Eagle is not rare. Nests were found in pine- 

 and cork-trees. In the first, on April 25th, the eggs were so 

 well marked that I had to shoot the female for identification, 

 and she is now in the British Museum. The nest is large, 

 sometimes placed on a bough, but more often in the centre 

 of the tree towards the top. The female sits very closely. 

 There were two eggs in each nsst, and even those found on 

 May 11th were fresh. 



Aquila adalberti. 



The Spanish Imperial Eagle is now rare. A nest shown 

 me l)y a keeper on April 27th contained two white but very 

 dirty eggs, on the point of hatching. This nest was at the 

 top of a large cork-tree ; the female left it when we were a 

 long way off and did not return. The next day another nest 

 was seen, also high up in a cork-tree, with two large young 

 and a rotten egg. Two half-eaten rats lay at the foot of 

 the tree. 



CiRCAETUS GALLICUS. 



A few observed. On April 27th a nest was found with 

 the usual single egg, very much incubated, and on the 28th 

 another with one that was quite fresh ; both of these were 

 in cork-trees, one out on a bongh, the other near the top. 

 In the very next tree, not twenty yards away, was a Booted 

 Eagle's nest, in the next tree but one a Red Kite had her 

 young, the Imperial Eagle's nest with nestlings was not a 

 hundred yards off, and a Green Woodpecker had young in 

 the same tree ! 



