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should excite as much disgust in my readers 

 as in myseh*. I believe the two smaller birds 

 were the offspring of the Eagle Owl. Close 

 to the nest lay a few small bones, of what 

 animal I am is^norant. These birds were all 

 quite full fed. Near them was a large dead 

 rat, of which the under side was already pu- 

 trefied and full of maggots. I verily believe 

 that these young birds cannot digest flesh, 

 but are obliged to wait till it decays and 

 affords them maggots and vermin. Their 

 bills and cere were black. The egg was 

 almost globular, white, the size of that of 

 a guinea-hen. 



Here and there among the rocks small 

 patches of vegetation were to be seen, full 

 of variety of herbaceous plants, among 

 others the Heart's Ease, Fiola tricolor*, 

 of which some of the flowers were white ; 

 others blue and white ; others with the 



* More probably, from the place of growth, as well 

 as the description, f^iola lutea of Fl. Britannica, and 

 English Botany^ vol. W.t. 721. 



