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mountains, I saw the male busily bringing food to the sitting 
female. 
The immature birds that have not yet begun to pair fly 
about hunting, like the “ Stein” Hagles already described, but 
their excursions are naturally much more limited in extent 
than those of their larger relatives, for the Imperial Eagle is 
not cosmopolitan ; it has a well-defined range, and is a bird 
of the South. The precise boundaries of the area of its distri- 
bution I have not, however, been able to determine, as I have 
hitherto only investigated the most northerly of the regions 
which it inhabits. 
