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The nest is commonly placed in almost inaccessible situations 
in the face of some bold cliff; a ledge of rock, above which some 
other ledge projects, is commonly chosen. 
The only eyries, I have been able to inspect, were shapeless 
heaps of sticks, nearly a cart load I should say, strewed on 
ledges of rock, (over a space of some three to five feet long by 
2 or 3 broad), intermingled with rags, huge feathers and large 
bones, and plentifully besprinkled with the droppings of the 
birds. Altogether they were not dainty spots, nor, it must 
be confessed, peculiarly pleasing to the olfactory nerves. I 
could see no trace of there having been any lining at any time 
to the nest; but I saw them, it must be remembered, in August, 
September and October, months after the eggs had been hatched 
and the young had flown, although the old birds still roosted 
there. 
Captain Cock was more fortunate, and Icannot do better I 
think, than quote his account of an eyrie to which he not long 
since laid successful seige. “ On the 4th December, 1868, I found 
the nest of Gypaetus Barbatus, in a hollow on the face of a steep 
precipice, situated in a range of hills, some six miles off the Grand 
Trunk road, 2 marches from Rawulpindee on the Peshawur 
side. I was out after nests, with but little hope of finding any 
at that time of year, when the shikaree I had with me, told 
me that some years before, when out with some sportsmen 
after Ourial, they had frightened a large bird off its nest, and 
he volunteered to show me where it was. We accordingly 
went to a steep gorge in the hill, very narrow, but with a_tre- 
mendous precipice on each side, From the top, where I was 
standing, to the opposite side, might have been some ninety 
yards across, and the precipice was some 180 feet in depth. 
About half way down, in what seemed a sheer wall of rock, was 
a hollow, some six feet in height and five feet in depth and 
breadth. In this was placed the Lammergeyer’s nest. 
‘The old bird was on her nest, and I looked at her for some 
time with the glass; she took alarm at once, and advancing to 
the edge of her nest stood up and looked at me with her neck 
stretched out and head turned sideways, bringing one eye to 
bear on me. She was a most noble looking bird, her large 
yellow eye, setting off her appearance. _ Flinging some stones 
down into the gorge to frighten her, she soon glided off her 
nest, and I could see two eggs. I now sat down to recon- 
noitre and plan some way of getting her eggs. By means of-a 
shelf of rock I could crawl to within 15 feet of her nest, but 
there it ended. I had 8 long ropes with me, but they would 
only just reach down to the nest from the top; one of my 
