204 The White-Shouldered Eagle 
obtained two very finely-coloured eg 
Crown Prince Rudolf. 
It is now thirty years since I have molested these Eagles. 
gs. These I gave to the late 
During that time the deep morass I describe which served as a 
regular paradise for Savi's Warbler and other birds of similar 
habits has been drained and the dense jungle cleared away and 
the whole country become much more frequented. The Eagles 
have however remained faithful to the locality and from time to 
time I have seen them sailing overhead. In 1907 I spent a day 
at the old spot and was rejoiced to find that they were still nesting 
in the vicinity. 
I will now give my experiences of another pair of these grand 
birds which have nested to my knowledge in the cork-oak trees in 
one of the great ravines in the sierra for thirty-five years. I first 
saw them in 1875, but five years passed before I got their eggs, 
a handsomely-coloured pair, in March 1880. Fourteen years 
passed before I was once again in this same valley and there, sure 
enough, were the Eagles nesting peacefully in a cork tree not 
30 ft. above the ground. This nest was the largest I ever saw 
measuring 8 ft. 6 in. by 5 ft. and was evidently the result of many 
years’ work, the newer and inhabited portion being built on the 
edge of a former nest which had slid from its position, hence the 
elliptical shape. It was lined with masses of freshly cut cork-oak 
branches and contained two eggs, hardly marked at all, in fact, of 
the normal colour. At the time I was anxious to secure a live 
Eagle of this species, so having replaced the eggs by a couple 
of fowl’s eggs, I set my trap—a circular pole trap without teeth and 
with the jaws well padded with chamois leather—at the spot where 
the Eagle entered the nest. According to my usual custom the 
trap was secured by about 30 yards of stout line to a dead bough 
which lay on the ground below the tree. Concealing myself in 
some high heather about 300 yards distant, 1 waited on events. 
