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look, yet I nevertheless, found some of these birds in their 
customary haunts by the middle, and shot one on the 24th of 
that month. 
When the “ Stein” Eagle finds a suitable district, it stays 
there a long time, often for one or two months. It takes 
up a fixed position, selects a certain tree as its roosting- 
place, to which it returns every evening. It avoids remaining 
for any length of time in the hunting-grounds of another of its 
species, and merely flies over them rapidly. One finds, how- 
ever, that a couple often keep faithfully together long after 
the breeding-season, and that they hunt and sleepin company 
throughout the winter. The same thing may be observed 
among young birds, probably children from the same nest ; 
‘they remain together for years, until their pairing-time also 
comes. 
Hunting in company is much more conducive to success, 
and so it even happens that the “Stein” and the Sea-Hagles 
become fast friends and remain together day and night. This 
I have personally observed. <A large pale yellow Sea-Eagle 
and a male “Stein” Eagle appeared together one day in a 
wood near Gédollé, and frequented the same district for three 
weeks. They were to be seen at all hours, and always 
together. I encountered them almost daily, until at last 
the “Stein” Eagle fell to my gun before the eyes of its 
companion. 
Strictly speaking, there is only one wood at Gédéllé to 
which the eagles always resort, and this is St. Kirdly, the 
most easterly of all. Their reason for selecting it is its great 
quietude and the numbers of deer which are there crowded 
into a small space. One comes across eagles in all the other 
adjoining woods, especially on fine days, when they extend 
their excursions ; but for roosting, and as a special residence, 
they always make choice of that wood. 
In the afternoon I often saw from one spot three and even 
