344 Bonelli’s Eagle 
for all time his ignorance of Eagles and their eggs, the unfortunate 
writer went into the most minute details as to how the egg he had 
so gallantly obtained was ‘‘white and somewhat pointed at both 
ends”; in fact an unmistakable tame goose’s egg! How painfully 
EGG OF BONELLI’S EAGLE. (Size 2°7 in. X 2 in.) 
unlike a Bonelli’s egg is this veracious description can be seen 
by the accompanying photograph which I took of the real egg 
at about 18 in. distance when I was lowered to the nest. 
Unfortunately, the goose-egger was by his own account not 
also a cliff-climber, nor was he equipped with a hand-camera or 
