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day, and for many consecutive days. They fly high above 
the woods, and none of them settle, for they are still travelling 
from river to river in search of hunting-grounds, and the 
most that any of them do is to circle round and try to appease 
their hunger with a hare. After the commencement of their 
migratory season these eagles quite disappear from that 
neighbourhood for some time, for they have all reached the 
places where they can find their favourite food; they are 
then on the lakes and rivers. 
Not until the great cold sets in do they return to the 
woods; then one often sees them in the forest which I 
mentioned when treating of the “Stein” Eagle, from two to 
four being frequently assembled at one spot. Sometimes, 
however, when the weather is mild Sea-Hagles may be sought 
for in vain in the woods of Gédéllé; one or two may halt 
there perhaps for a few hours about the middle of December, 
but that is all. In severe winters they are, on the contrary, 
visitors upon whose appearance one can safely count. In 
1875 I there lured with horseflesh, and was fortunate enough 
to kill, a very pale-yellow coloured Sea-Hagle, which had 
been ranging for some time through a particular wood. Soon 
afterwards another very old bird appeared and went about 
for nearly a month with a “Stein” Eagle, which I finally 
killed before its eyes. 
The same sort of thing takes place at the commencement 
‘of the mild weather, towards the middle or end of March, as 
in October. There then comes a succession of days when 
Sea-Hagles may be met with in almost every district of 
Central Europe. That is the time when they are flying to 
their breeding-places. In the neighbourhood of Vienna, 
which throughout the winter is well stocked with them, I 
only remember to have seen one during the breeding-season. 
It was a very pale-coloured old bird, and made its appearance 
in the Imperial Park at the beginning of June. It devoured 
