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mountains, I saw the male busily bringing food to the sitting 

 female. 



The immature birds that have not yet begun to pair fly 

 about hunting, like the " Stein " Eagles already described, but 

 their excursions are naturally much more limited in extent 

 than those of their larger relatives, for the Imperial Eagle is 

 not cosmopolitan ; it has a well-defined range, and is a bird 

 of the South. The precise boundaries of the area of its distri- 

 bution I have not, however, been able to determine, as I have 

 hitherto only investigated the most northerly of the regions 

 .which it inhabits. 



