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not until one of the men had almost trodden upon her that 
she rose from four fresh eggs. One clutch was slightly 
marked with red ; all the others were white. 
BUTEO VULGARIS. 
Common in the pine- woods. Incubated eggs were found 
on April 14th, and young some days old on April 16th. The 
clutch generally consists of two eggSj and we only once saw 
three in Spain. 
Aquila pennata. 
The Booted Eagle is not rare. Nests were found in pine- 
and cork-trees. In the first, on April 25th, the eggs were so 
well marked that I had to shoot the female for identification, 
and she is now in the British Museum. The nest is large, 
sometimes placed on a bough, but more often in the centre 
of the tree towards the top. The female sits very closely. 
There were two eggs in each nsst, and even those found on 
May 11th were fresh. 
Aquila adalberti. 
The Spanish Imperial Eagle is now rare. A nest shown 
me by a keeper on April 27th contained two white but very 
dirty eggs, on the point of hatching. This nest was at the 
top of a large cork-tree ; the female left it when we were a 
long way off and did not return. The next day another nest 
was seen, also high up in a cork-tree, with two large young 
and a rotten egg. Two half-eaten rats lay at the foot of 
the tree. 
CiRCAETUS GALLICUS. 
A few observed. On April 27th a nest was found with 
the usual single egg, very much incubated, and on the 28th 
another with one that was quite fresh ; both of these were 
in cork-trees, one out on a bough, the other near the top. 
In the very next tree, not twenty yards away, was a Booted 
Eaglets nest, in the next tree but one a Red Kite had her 
young, the Imperial Eaglets nest with nestlings was not a 
hundred yards off, and a Green Woodpecker had young in 
the same tree ! 
