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taken from this nest were unusually large, one of them measuring 

 79 x 62*2 millimetres. 



A curious circumstance about the Eagles that make their 

 home near Sargent is that several pairs which are always seen 

 there apparently do not nest. The nature of the country in 

 some of the hills is such that one accustomed to riding about 

 might actually know every tree where the birds could build, so 

 that an undiscovered nest would be an impossibility. My friend 

 showed me a pair of Eagles that have lived in the hills at the back 

 of his house for many years. He also pointed out to me their 

 nest, which the birds repaired last year, but did not use. He 

 says they have not laid since 1884, when they had three eggs. 

 This pair stay about the place all the year, living largely (like 

 the other Eagles thereabouts) on squirrels. They are accustomed 

 to roost in one particular tree. I heard them uttering their 

 peculiar, plaintive whistle in the mornings several times during 

 my stay. Their nest was not much over three hundred yards 

 from the house, and was a large structure built on a horizontal 

 limb about forty feet from the ground. 



From what has been said, it will be seen that collecting 

 Eagle's eggs in California is not fraught with the difficulties and 

 dangers which confront the ambitious egg-hunter in the Eastern 

 States. One Eagle's nest I found was so accessible that a lady 

 could have climbed to it almost without difficulty. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



William Markwick's unpublished MS. on the Birds of Sussex. — 

 Since my observations on Markwick's unpublished MS. on Sussex Birds 

 appeared in ' The Zoologist' (pp. 335 — 345) I have ascertained, on reference 

 to the Sussex Archaeological Collections (vol. xxii. p. 16^), and to the notice 

 of Denne Park given in the second volume of Cartwright's ■ History of the 

 Rape of Bramber,' that William Markwick married a Miss Eversfield, 

 of Denne, and of the Grove House, Hollington, near Battle; and that 

 Sir Charles Eversfield, Bart., devised the property at Denne to his sister, 

 Mrs. Olive Eversfield, who left it on her death, in 1803, to her nephew 

 William Markwick, who thereupon adopted the name of Eversfield, as stated 

 by Bennett, op. cit.—J. E. Harting. 



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