44 EGYPTIAN BIRDS 
on doing me serious damage, my prisoner strove 
with me. That was in the evening; very early 
the next day I went right up the same place, 
and as there were no feathers or other marks of 
murder, I sincerely hope the poor bird got safely 
away to some sheltering cave, there to be welcomed 
by wife or husband, as the case might be, and 
regaled with great store of such food as Eagle 
Owls love. When with me, sardines, scraps of 
meat, and bits of bony chicken were readily eaten, 
but a great dislike was shown to being watched 
at meals. 
