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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



remark that, after receiving the permission, " she sang her 

 song," is not only, as regards a sexual acquirement, against the 

 teaching of entomology, hut also contrary to the true though 

 ungallant lines of the Rhodian hard who wrote : — 



" Happy the Cicada lives, 



Since they all have voiceless wives." 



The Home-life of a Golden Eagle. Photographed and Described 

 by H. B. Macpherson. Witherby & Co. 



Mr. Macpherson has had an unique experience — in fact, the 

 ornithological chance of a lifetime, and he has made the most of 

 it. He has not only watched the home-life, but seen the young 

 Eagle from the egg to its abandonment of the nest and its dis- 

 appearance into the grand but inhospitable gorges of the 

 Grampian range. In what to a Southron seems dreary exposure 

 combined with laborious climbings the author has kept long 

 vigils near the eyrie, and done bird-watching par excellence with 

 the trusty camera, while thirty-two mounted plates show the 

 principal incidents of the eleven weeks passed by the eaglet in 

 the eyrie. There were two young, but one mysteriously dis- 

 appeared, so that even this rare bird requires protection rather 

 than molestation, for destructive as are its habits it is not free 

 from danger. 



In this booklet Mr. Macpherson tells his story with consider- 

 able skill, for it never lacks the highland environment ; it 

 details observations which are original, and it records work 

 only to be accomplished by much hardihood. The plates fully 

 illustrate the story of the eyrie with the hardy uprearing of the 

 eaglet as in the old Scottish way. We have only one fault to 

 find, and that more with the publisher than the author. Surely 

 this booklet deserved better binding ; an essential^ paper cover 

 for so good a piece of work throws an obligation on all who 

 possess it and naturally wish to place it on the library shelf. 



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