A Nest in a Cork Tree 383 
It was on 6 April, 1879, when riding through the Cork Woods 
near Gibraltar, on one of my usual tours of inspection of the nesting 
stations in the district that I visited a nest of the Snake Eagle, which 
had been occupied by these birds in 1877. This nest was on the 
horizontal branch of a cork tree about 20 ft. from the ground. 
NEOPHRON’S NEST AMID BOULDERS ON A HILL-SIDE. 
Seeing that it had been recently repaired, I climbed up to it and 
found it freshly lined with goatshair. Since Snake Eagles invari- 
ably use fresh green ilex boughs with leaves on them for lining 
their nests, this somewhat puzzled me. Still, it was plain that the 
nest had been recently repaired and, as if to clinch the matter, a 
