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such good fortune has been accorded even more than 

 once; Joseph Solacher, of Baierisch Zell*, has shot 

 three. The last he brought down by the merest chance. 

 He was returning home after a day's stalking on the 

 mountain, when he heard the rush of wings just above 

 him. Snatching his rifle from his back, he looked up, 

 and saw an eagle poised in the air directly over his head. 

 He aimed steadily, though without expecting to hit him, 

 and fired ; when, to his astonishment, down dropped the 

 eagle quite dead at his feet. Count Arco has shot ten : 

 four in the neighbourhood of their eyi'ie, and the others 

 by waiting for them at a spot where a kid or chamois 

 was exposed : for though eagles will not eat carrion, they 

 take the flesh of an animal recently killed. 



I give here a detailed account of this gentleman's 

 successful attempt to carry off an eaglet from the e3rrie ; 

 and I make use of his o^vn words, just as he entered 

 them in his diary on the occasion. 



June 13, I860.— Arrived at Eohrmoos in Allgaii, an 

 estate belonging to Prince Frederick Waldburg-Wolfegg- 

 Waldsee, thirty miles from the Lake of Constance, at 

 seven o'clock in the morning. Immediately held a con- 

 sultation with the land-steward, who had been born and 

 bred there, and knew the country well, as to the best 

 method of undertaking the expedition to the eyrie in 



* For an account of this family see " Chamois Hunting in the Moun- 

 tains of Bavaria," chapter vii. 



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