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a certain distance from every nest, a particular tree with dead 
upper branches, on which the eagles rest, and which is exclu- 
sively used for that purpose. If, however, the Sea-Hagle has 
detected any one near its abode, there is an instant end to its 
carelessness, and it circles high and low over the place, 
uttering the incessant cries of warning by which it seeks to 
summon up its mate, that they may examine the neighbour- 
hood in company, and not be absent for an instant from the 
spot where danger threatens. Every movement of the dis- 
covered enemy is responded to by renewed screams, nor do 
they for a moment relax their precautions until the danger 
has entirely vanished. Should another Sea-Eagle come into 
their territory, they at once hunt it out, but in a playful 
manner, for among the eagles on the Danube such serious 
encounters do not take place as certainly occur elsewhere, as 
the pairs breed too close together, and the extent of ground 
which each couple regard as their own is very small. I twice 
found these birds nesting hardly six hundred paces from each 
other. 
Four of the Sea-Hagles observed by us brought fish to their 
young, some of which were still alive. This is not remarkable 
in the auen, where the nests are often situated close to the 
water; but in the Fruska-Gora, where we also found two of their 
eyries, we thought it interesting to see live fish in the claws of 
the eagles. These birds must have traversed at least three or 
four miles in a straight line from the Danube, over the bare 
outlying hills, before reaching the woods of the Fruska-Gora. 
Yet there one of my companions saw an eagle carrying two 
fish at the same time, one of which it threw into the nest, and 
then settled upon a branch, holding the other in its claws. 
There it was killed, and about half an hour afterwards the 
second eagle came up, perched on a branch, escaped uninjured 
from a shot fired at it, and let fall a fish, which was picked up 
by the jiigers. The observer then left the nest, but returning 
an hour later, found that the fish which had been lying on the 
