PLATE I 

 GOLDEN EAGLE. Aquila chrysaetus 



May 2o//z, 1896. This Plate was taken from an Eagle's eyrie at Lochbuie, 

 Isle of Mull. The nest was easily accessible, being placed beside a small 

 rowan-bush on a grassy ledge on a precipitous face of rock some forty feet 

 high. It was a bulky structure of heather torn up by the roots and bits of 

 turf, and was lined with a quantity of freshly plucked briar leaves and twigs 

 of rowan. The nest contained a young bird covered with white down and 

 an addled egg ; in and around it were remains of grouse and white hare, and 

 on the edge beside the young bird lay two grouse, plucked quite clean, 

 pieces of two white hares, half a leveret, and a stoat! the latter with all 

 the fur stripped off it except its tail, with the unmistakable black tip. 



The old bird left the nest when we were within twenty yards of her and 

 flew right away; she did not come back all the time we were at the nest, 

 though we saw her soaring round and round, in the distance, a mere speck 

 in the sky. The young bird was very timid, and did not show fight at all ; 

 even when I took it in my hand it only uttered a faint squealing noise, and 

 crouched with its beak open while I photographed it. 



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