160 BUBO MAXIMUS. 



BUBO MAXIMUS, Fleming. 



EAGLE-OWL. 



§ 523. One. — From Dr. Pitman's Collection. 



§ 524. One. — Upsala-Lan. From Herr C. Aberg's Collection, 

 1853. 



This egg was given me at Upsala by Herr Carl Aberg, this 9th 

 May, 1853, it being one of three in his possession, which he took 

 some five or six years ago from a rock upon some property of his, 

 three or four miles from Upsala in a south-westerly direction. The 

 bird is hereabouts called by a name [t//"] pronounced like our "ugh," 

 which has been given it from the noise it makes. Early this morning 

 I started, with HH. Aberg and Lofgren, for the spot. We saw no 

 Owls ; but the place where eggs had been, or one just like it, was 

 shown to me. It was on a shelf above a steep rock, just such a site 

 as that near Gothenburg ^, and with a southern aspect. Some trees 

 have been cut down where it is. The nest was there for three years 

 in succession. 



^ 525. Asberg, Angermanland. 20 May, 1853. "J. W." 



This egg I took as above, out of a nest with two young birds. It 

 had a young one inside, which had made a considerable hole in the 

 shell, through which the beak appeared, and it was chirping loudly. 

 Those already hatched did not seem to have come long into the world. 

 They were quite blind, and covered with white down, having a 

 yellowish tinge. Their general appearance was that of young Eagles. 

 The nest was scarcely hollowed, and with nothing in addition to the bare 

 ground except the hair and remains of castings of the old birds, some 

 of which remained uncrushed at the side. There was not more than 

 an inch of earth upon the rock ; however, there grew upon it bear- 

 berry, juniper, and a little grass, besides a Scotch fir, some sixteen feet 

 high, with a trunk flattened to the perpendicular rock. The shelf 



^ [This site is described in Mr. Wolley's fragmentary joiu'nal of 1853 as follows : 

 — "■ 22nd April. After returning to Gothenburg, I went out with a gentleman 

 resident there to look for the nest of an Eagle-Owl across the river. We came to 



