418 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 
most constant pursuit. I have ranged through our Alps in 
the most varied directions, and have spent entire days high 
up in the mountains, and I have, at the outside, not met with 
more than four “ Stein”? Eagles; but, on the other hand, I 
have both seen and carefully observed many birds of this 
species in divers flat districts of the kingdom, and have even 
shot some of them. Excepting, however, the high moun- 
tains, | know of no other locality within our realms where 
they would breed. 
I imagine that most of their nests are situated in the loftier 
parts of the Carpathians, the Alps of Transylvania, and in the 
forests of Eastern Prussia, Russian Poland, and other Russian 
provinces. There must be places where this species can breed 
quite undisturbed, for the number of young ones seen in 
spring and summer, as well as the pairs and the solitary 
adults encountered in winter, is very considerable. One 
need, however, have sharp eyes, skill, and perseverance to 
find out whether these eagles are passing through a given 
district. 
Like all other large birds of prey, the “Stein” Eagle only 
begins to breed in its third or fourth year, and is from the 
moment of its leaving the nest up to that time occupied 
in long journeys and in ranging through the most distant 
localities. 
Its powers of flight are very great, and its wanderings 
are limited by no other laws than those of hunger and 
its fear of man, which increases with age. This being 
the case, whither does not this swift powerful bird travel! 
There is, for example, not a single tract in the whole kingdom 
unfrequented by the “Stein” Eagle. In one locality it is 
seen more commonly, in another more rarely, but everywhere 
a thorough search can and will disclose its presence, at all 
events occasionally during the year. There is a current idea, 
especially among sportsmen, that this eagle only visits the 
