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could easily have shot it, so closely and steadily did it 
hover like a hawk over the nest, screaming loudly. 
The two young ones were already a ‘good size, but still 
covered with down. We rolled them carefully in my plaid, 
put the dead eagle beside them, and were going onwards 
when my jiiger begged me to visit a buzzard’s nest which he 
had discovered a little way off. 
I found this very common inhabitant of all the Lower 
Austrian woods in its nest, and though I had so often killed it 
in the most varied localities, it was the first time that we had 
met with it in the “auen” during this trip; for in the forests 
of Apatin we had not seen a single individual of this species, 
either nesting or even flying about. Directly the stem of 
the tree was lightly tapped, the bird left its nest and fell to 
my first shot. 
Time was now pressing, as we were to begin our onward 
journey before noon ; so we hurried back, and in about half 
an hour I reached the deck of the steamer, with my Sea-Ea cle, 
Black Stork, Common Buzzard, and the two live young 
Sea-Hagles. 
My brother-in-law, who had got back before me, had also 
killed a remarkably large Sea-Hagle. 
My conjecture had been well grounded, for the first two 
gun-shots which I had heard had not done the least damage 
to the eagle, which my brother-in-law had found at its nest ; 
but about half an hour afterwards the bird had returned, and 
as it was settling on the edge of its eyrie Leopold’s un- 
erring rifle brought it down. He had also visited the nests of 
a Goshawk and of some Kites, at which, however, he had not 
met with any further success, 
The two Savants had again been unlucky with their Sea- 
Eagles, and returned with only one Goshawk, which Homeyer 
had shot, and with some small birds killed for scientific 
purposes. 
