ON ORNITHOLOGY. 437 
On the second occasion I went through a somewhat similar 
experience in the Fruska-Gora. An accomplished forester, 
well acquainted with birds, conducted me to a Kite’s nest, 
where I tried to drive out the occupant by hammering at the 
trunk of the tree, but it was not until after repeated attempts 
that a handsome Pygmy Eagle flew out and fell to my shot. 
A few days before, the forester had frightened out the female 
Kite, and on the very day when I found the Pygmy Eagle as 
an interloper in the nest the pair of Kites were anxiously 
circling over the spot. Both the nests of these Kites were 
placed on oak trees in very similar situations. 
Near Kovil I found a dark-coloured female Pygmy Eagle 
in a particularly large nest. The male, decked in the beauti- 
ful pale plumage, was perched close by, and when I approached 
fluttered anxiously from tree to tree without flying far away, 
even after its mate had been shot. 
It is difficult to furnish detailed and connected information 
about the Pygmy Eagle, for one only sees it now and again, 
and it is only when favoured by good luck that one has an 
opportunity of studying this highly interesting bird. 
In the beautiful uninhabited mountains close to the splendid 
lake of Butrinto, in Albania, I have seen the bold, powerful, 
and equally interesting Bonelli’s Eagle (Aguila boneilii) 
cruising about, but it unfortunately never came well within 
shot. I hope, however, that on some future occasion I may 
be able to record some particulars concerning this bird. 
