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there was more game and they were able to find abundance 
of food on land in the event of the ice holding, eight to ten 
Sea-Hagles often appeared on the Lobau, where they were 
concentrated within a small area. In the evening they roosted 
on the tall elms and white poplars, and a great many were 
then shot by the keepers. Things have, however, changed 
since that time, but three or four still come to the auen in 
the immediate neighbourhood of Vienna every year, and there 
spend the winter. The March is also one of the chief lines 
of this eagle’s migration. From Germany they come to 
Moravia, follow that river up to the Danube, and there hunt 
about up and down. From the March they also make ex- 
cursions away over the Marchteld, straight to the Danube. 
In January and February they are seen in almost every 
part of Lower Austria north of the Danube. The little fir- 
woods near Giinserndorf form one of the headquarters and 
favourite roosting-places, to which they come every year, 
especially when the ice on the rivers makes fishing impossible. 
There they try to make up for their deprivations by hunting 
hares and rabbits, and many are then killed at the Hagle-Owl 
huts round Giinserndorf, Wagram, and even as low as 
Aspern. I need only refer to the numbers of Sea-Hagles 
that the celebrated eagle-hunter Draxler used to shoot from 
his hut at Giinserndorf, where I myself once saw near the 
railway two of these birds following each other close to the 
ground. The Sea-Hagle is also a common yearly visitor in 
the neighbourhood of the Neusiedler Lake, where it hunts 
the ducks in the reed-beds and does great havoc among the 
fish, for it is one of the most arrant robbers of these creatures, 
and does immense damage to the fishermen. 
Similar localities also exist in Hungary, where it may be 
met with in winter almost daily. I have frequently observed 
it in the woods at G6d6ll6, and in October, when. its first 
great hunting-trips begin, have often seen one or two every 
