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sized trees, in the middle of a broad plain, and affords every- 
thing that the Spotted Hagle can desire. The keepers told us 
that it often breeds there ; but we were not lucky enough to 
find a nest ourselves, though we often saw the birds flying 
through the trees or circling aloft, either singly or in little 
companies. 
In Slavonia I saw Spotted Eagles hunting about the 
wooded valleys of the Fruska-Gora mountains on several 
occasions, and was much surprised to find this characteristic 
bird of the plains among those thickly wooded and somewhat 
high mountains. The fact may be explained by the 
proximity of the great Hungarian plains, as well as those of 
the Save further to the south, which must, according to our 
united observations, be regarded as the daily hunting-grounds 
of all the birds of prey nesting in the Fruska-Gora. In 
one of the valleys of these mountains we even found a nest 
of the Spotted Eagle, which the keepers pointed out as being 
the abode of a Kite. 
I found this species most abundant near the village of 
Futak, on the left bank of the Danube. There it was really 
the characteristic bird of the little oak woods, which were 
surrounded by fields and heaths. We came across four 
inhabited nests of it within a small area, and I noticed several 
of these eagles flying about among the isolated clumps of 
wood. The nests which I myself saw were placed on the 
upper branches of medium-sized oaks, and were large and 
strongly built, their form reminding us of those of the 
Common Buzzard. The breeding females were all sitting 
hard, and it was only after repeated tapping at the trunks 
of the trees that they quitted their dwellings with a quick 
gliding flight. 
I several times saw Spotted Eagles in the woods at Kovil, 
near the mouth of the Theiss; but favourable as the nature of 
the district appeared to be, I did not succeed in finding a 
