CHAPTER IL 



GOLDEN EAGLES. 



AM writing in Scotland, 

 "where Eagles are still 

 common," as a book 

 written by a member of the British 

 Ornithologist's Union says. If not 

 exactly "common," in the usual 

 sense of the term, Eagles are still to 

 be seen in the Hebrides, in the wilds 

 of Skye, and also in those Perth- 

 shire glens where Rhoderic Dhu 

 gained his bonnet-plume long ago. 

 Even here where I am abiding, 

 close to the " bonny green banks of 

 Loch Lomond," I have met with 

 one, at least. 



Two years since I was helping a 



