FALCONID^B. 



killed by a swarm of ants which inhabited a dead bough of the 

 tree on which the nest was placed. 



NEST OF WHITE-SHOULDERED EAGLE (March 28th, 1894). 



Mr. Stark, in 1876, found that they breed in immature 

 plumage ; but this is not unknown with other Raptores. 



Verner writes that " this Eagle was not uncommon in the 

 Cork-woods about twenty years ago, but they have now, from 

 persecution, retired to the more unfrequented parts of the country, 

 and are to be found where there are any cork-trees big enough 

 for their nests, which usually are lined with fresh green boughs 

 of the ilex; but nests found in 1875 and 1877 were lined with 

 goat's-hair and lamb's-wool, which I take to be exceptional cases. 

 The White-shouldered Eagle nests with great regularity, laying 

 three eggs by about the 8th of March, and this number seems to 

 be the regular complement. 



"It is interesting to notice that the habit of nearly all rock- 

 nesting Eagles having two situations for their nests, never far 



