198 COUNTRY RAMBLES. 



28th. Cooler, temperature down to 40 degrees in the shade, 

 about 70 degrees in the sun, very hard rains during last night. Swallow 

 and Swift seen, also House Martin, Lapwing, Jackdaw, and Yellow 

 Bunting. 



The following paragraph is taken from a local paper: 



"There is on exhibition in the window of a Liverpool Taxidermist 

 a splendid specimen of the Golden Eagle, recently killed at Zenula 

 Forest, Glencannich, Beauly, N.B. The bird measures seven feet 

 two inches from tip to tip of the wings when expanded, and three 

 feet two inches from beak to tail. It had built its eyrie in a small 

 cave on the face of a high cliff, and a keeper, having noted the spot, 

 watched until the return of the female bird one evening, and having 

 fastened a rope round his waist and secured it round the stump of a 

 tree, descended as soon as darkness had set in to the nest, situated 

 many feet below. He was immediately attacked by the Eagle, but 

 after a short struggle succeeded in breaking its wing with a cudgel. 

 He then waited until daylight, when he destroyed the bird, and took 

 the only Eaglet from the nest, and re-ascended the face of the cliff" 



All the harm I wish that "keeper" is that he had never ascended 

 the cliff again! 



29th. Bright morning, after- 

 wards dull ; thundery and showery. 

 Flowers found in bloom: --Water 

 Ragwort, Ragged Robin, Upright 

 Meadow Crowfoot, Yarrow, Bird's- 

 foot Trefoil, Marsh Thistle, White 

 Clover, Long-rooted Cat's Ear, 

 Charlock, Cow Parsnip, Field Con- 

 volvulus, Hedge Parsley, Bladder 

 HUMMING BIRD HAWK MOTH Campion, Bramble, Sow Thistle, 



Scarlet Poppy, Agrimony (mostly 

 seeded now; how prominent the 



pliant stems and seed-pods along the hedgerows at this season), Small 

 Knapweed, Yellow Bedstraw, Meadow Vetchling, Musk Mallow, 

 Hedge Calamint, Perforated St. John's Wort, Traveller's Joy (we 

 have been watching this for weeks past, and now that it is out in 

 flower we feel especially gratified. Some people call it Daddy's Beard 

 and White Clematis), White Campion, Field Scabious, White Bryony 

 (does not this last in flower a long time as compared with the Black 





