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there was more game and they were able to find abundance 

 of food on land in the event of the ice holding, eight to ten 

 Sea-Eagles often appeared on the Lobau, where they were 

 concentrated within a small area. In the evening they roosted 

 on the tall elms and white poplars, and a great many were 

 then shot by the keepers. Things have, however, changed 

 since that time, but three or four still come to the auen in 

 the immediate neighbourhood of Vienna every year, and there 

 spend the winter. The March is also one of the chief lines 

 of this eagle's migration. From Germany they come to 

 Moravia, follow that river up to the Danube, and there hunt 

 about up and down. From the March they also make ex- 

 cursions away over the Marchfeld, straight to the Danube. 



In January and February they are seen in almost every 

 part of Lower Austria north of the Danube. The little fir- 

 woods near Ganserndorf form one of the headquarters and 

 favourite roosting-places, to which they come every year, 

 especially when the ice on the rivers makes fishing impossible. 

 There they try to make up for their deprivations by hunting 

 hares and rabbits, and many are then killed at the Eagle-Owl 

 huts round Ganserndorf, Wagram, and even as low as 

 Aspern. I need only refer to the numbers of Sea-Eagles 

 that the celebrated eagle-hunter Draxler used to shoot from 

 his hut at Ganserndorf, where I myself once saw near the 

 railway two of these birds following each other close to the 

 ground. The Sea-Eagle is also a common yearly visitor in 

 the neighbourhood of the Neusiedler Lake, where it hunts 

 the ducks in the reed-beds and does great havoc among the 

 fish, for it is one of the most arrant robbers of these creatures, 

 and does immense damage to the fishermen. 



Similar localities also exist in Hungary, where it may be 

 met with in winter almost daily. I have frequently observed 

 it in the woods at Godollo, and in October, when its first 

 great hunting-trips begin, have often seen one or two every 



