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without sickness. They would, without any particular care, 

 have become strong young rascals, when I transferred them 

 to other hands ; but, as I afterwards heard, the close sunless 

 cages and the food of the Zoological Gardens soon finished 

 off most of them. 



I have found this to be the case on several occasions, 

 and young birds of prey in confinement can only be saved from 

 certain death by a mixed diet of flesh and bones, with feathers 

 or hair. In a great many zoological gardens they are, how- 

 ever, unhappily killed by being studiously fed with pure 

 flesh, whereas they need other substances for the formation of 

 bone. It was remarkable how quickly my young Sea-Eagles 

 got used to people and dogs, and how confident they became. 



I will, in conclusion, give the dimensions of twelve Sea- 

 Eagles which 1 measured myself, and which my friends and 1 

 shot in Southern Hungary and Slavonia during the end of 

 April and the beginning of May. 



