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occupying one of these sites and at others a fourth site, which 
I failed to discover, owing to lack of time. 
Another pair of Golden Eagles occupied a big hill about a day’s 
journey from the nest I have just mentioned. I have had an 
opportunity to study this pair closely for over seven years and 
have succeeded in finding the various alternative sites they have 
occupied. The first site, which I will call “A,” was on a 
small terrace about 250 ft. from the base of a very precipitous 
cliff, and perhaps 150 ft. from the top. The view from this 
nest which is situated many hundreds of feet above the general 
level of the country below it is very extensive. But, although 
to the eye the place is most inaccessible, as a matter of fact 
it can be approached from behind through a small natural 
embrasure in the rocks which leads right into it. It has for 
many years been resorted to by Golden Eagles, and although 
the local goatherds have, as they have told me, often destroyed 
it, and of late years it has been harried more than once, the 
hapless old birds still resort to it at intervals. 
Two eggs were taken from this nest, not by me, the first year 
I heard of it. The following year the Eagles nested in a low 
crag in a small ravine about three miles north of the first nest, 
which I shall call site ‘‘ B.”. Here they happily escaped molestation. 
The third year, the old birds removed to a low cliff in a ravine 
about two and a half miles distant east of “A” and three miles from 
‘“B,” which I shall call site “C.” This nest was on a shelving 
rock, not 15 ft. from the summit, the ground above was however 
extremely steep and the soil loose and it was necessary for those 
who handled the rope to exercise great care before they could obtain 
a safe foothold amid the steep and slippery rocks. A big rock over- 
hung the nest and made it quite inaccessible from directly above. 
|] accordingly went over to the right of it, but found it impossible 
to work into it from the flank. Finally I went over, some yards to 
