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look, yet I nevertheless, found some of these birds in their 

 customary haunts by the middle, and shot one on the 24th of 

 that month. 



When the " Stein " Eagle finds a suitable district, it stays 

 there a long time, often for one or two months. It takes 

 up a fixed position, selects a certain tree as its roosting- 

 place, to which it returns every evening. It avoids remaining 

 for any length of time in the hunting-grounds of another of its 

 species, and merely flies over them rapidly. One finds, how- 

 ever, that a couple often keep faithfully together long after 

 the breeding-season, and that they hunt and sleep in company 

 throughout the winter. The same thing may be observed 

 among young birds, probably children from the same nest ; 

 they remain together for years, until their pairing-time also 

 comes. 



Hunting in company is much more conducive to success, 

 and so it even happens that the " Stein " and the Sea-Eagles 

 become fast friends and remain together day and night. This 

 I have personally observed. A large pale yellow Sea-Eagle 

 and a male " Stein " Eagle appeared together one day in a 

 wood near Godollo, and frequented the same district for three 

 weeks. They were to be seen at all hours, and always 

 together. I encountered them almost daily, until at last 

 the " Stein " Eagle fell to my gun before the eyes of its 

 companion. 



Strictly speaking, there is only one wood at Godollo to 

 which the eagles always resort, and this is St. Kiraly, the 

 most easterly of all. Their reason for selecting it is its great 

 quietude and the numbers of deer which are there crowded 

 into a small space. One comes across eagles in all the other 

 adjoining woods, especially on fine days, when they extend 

 their excursions ; but for roosting, and as a special residence, 

 they always make choice of that wood. 



In the afternoon I often saw from one spot three and even 



