Young Eagle Owls 319 
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One year, it was in the spring of 1903, on descending to this 
nest I found it occupied by two most delightful Eagle Owlets. 
They were about half grown and a mass of fluffy down and finely 
vermiculated feathers, In vain did I try to photograph them. 
NEST OF EAGLE OWL IN CAVERN ON FACE OF CLIFF. 
Owing to the darkness of the cavern a considerable time exposure 
was necessary and it was simply impossible to get both to remain 
quiet. At times one of them would elect to resolve itself into 
a ball of apparently inanimate down for thirty seconds or so, but 
not so the other which would proceed to expand its plumage 
