320 The Eagle Owl 
until almost double its ordinary size and then slowly subside to 
its normal dimensions to the accompaniments of vollies of loud 
snaps of its beak. No sooner had one gone through this 
manceuvre and come to rest than the other would commence a 
similar performance. 
I took these young savages and reared them successfully. 
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From the very first they showed fight. When they were not 
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YOUNG EAGLE OWLS IN COURTYARD 
more than a few weeks old I endeavoured to photograph them 
in the courtyard of the house where I was staying and the wrath 
and contempt they evinced at my efforts on this occasion are in 
some degree reproduced by the picture then taken. The séance 
was abruptly closed by one of them, not the supercilious one, 
suddenly making a vicious run at the camera. 
As already mentioned, two eggs is the usual complement laid 
