104 BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



us for some time to come. Our illustrations are 

 from photographs taken in the Western Isles of 

 Scotland, but in the interests of British ornithology 

 I think it best not to advertise the exact spot. 

 The pictures were secured at different seasons ; 

 when the young ones were in the nest it contained 



GOLDEN EAGLE'S NEST AND EGGS. 



two partly consumed mountain hares, off which the 

 down had nearly all been carefully plucked, and 

 the hind legs of a half -grown black rabbit. 



Materials. Sticks, bits of heather, dead fern- 

 fronds, grass, and moss. The nest is repaired from 

 year to year, and often becomes a bulky structure, 

 on account of the bird using the same site for a 

 long period. The one figured opposite contained 

 a large quantity of sticks and rubbish. 



Eggs. Two, sometimes three ; very rarely four. 

 Subject to variation both in ground - colour and 

 markings. The commonest type is dingy white, 



