﻿BIEDS. 
  

  

  125 
  

  

  numbers 
  is 
  noticeable. 
  Still 
  this 
  favourable 
  turn 
  of 
  events 
  

   will 
  require 
  to 
  be 
  extended 
  very 
  considerably 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  

   direction 
  before 
  any 
  permanent 
  increase 
  can 
  be 
  maintained. 
  

   Several 
  of 
  our 
  landed 
  proprietors 
  have 
  issued 
  orders 
  that 
  the 
  

   Eagles 
  are 
  in 
  no 
  way 
  to 
  be 
  molested, 
  and 
  the 
  result 
  is 
  that 
  in 
  

   those 
  places 
  the 
  birds 
  build 
  new 
  or 
  repair 
  their 
  old 
  nests 
  year 
  

   after 
  year 
  in 
  security 
  and 
  peace. 
  Owing 
  to 
  this 
  happy 
  state 
  

   of 
  affairs, 
  I 
  had 
  the 
  opportunity, 
  through 
  the 
  kindness 
  of 
  the 
  

   late 
  Sir 
  W. 
  Cunliffe 
  Brooks, 
  Bart., 
  of 
  visiting 
  the 
  Forest 
  of 
  

   Glen 
  Tanner 
  and 
  of 
  inspecting 
  the 
  Eagles' 
  nest 
  there, 
  and 
  

   also 
  received 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  generous 
  hand 
  a 
  photograph 
  of 
  

   the 
  tree 
  on 
  which 
  the 
  nest 
  has 
  been 
  for 
  several 
  years 
  back. 
  

  

  The 
  photograph 
  was 
  taken 
  while 
  the 
  Eaglets 
  occupied 
  the 
  

   nest, 
  and 
  shows 
  both 
  of 
  them 
  looking 
  over 
  its 
  edge. 
  Previous 
  

   to 
  the 
  nest 
  being 
  in 
  its 
  present 
  site, 
  it 
  was 
  situated 
  on 
  a 
  low 
  

   dwarfed 
  fir 
  tree 
  in 
  another 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  glen, 
  where 
  the 
  nest 
  

   was 
  easily 
  reached, 
  and 
  from 
  which 
  the 
  eggs 
  were 
  sometimes 
  

   taken. 
  "This 
  species 
  bred 
  in 
  the 
  forest 
  of 
  Birse; 
  an 
  egg 
  

   was 
  taken 
  from 
  the 
  nest 
  in 
  1851 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Ewan." 
  (Taylor, 
  

   Naturalist, 
  vol. 
  iii., 
  p. 
  139.) 
  The 
  egg 
  in 
  question 
  Mr. 
  Ewan 
  

   subsequently 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  of 
  the 
  Aberdeen 
  United 
  

   Free 
  Church 
  College. 
  

  

  A 
  pair 
  of 
  Golden 
  Eagles 
  had 
  their 
  nest 
  upon 
  a 
  rock 
  at 
  

   Clash 
  Mor, 
  and 
  another 
  pair 
  at 
  Tronabruich, 
  beside 
  the 
  

   Bridge 
  of 
  Dee, 
  at 
  Invercauld 
  (1888-89) 
  — 
  so 
  the 
  late 
  Mr. 
  

   Thomson, 
  Dachlash, 
  Braemar, 
  informed 
  me. 
  A 
  pair 
  breeds 
  in 
  

   Glen 
  Dee 
  on 
  a 
  rock 
  near 
  the 
  Devil's 
  Point, 
  and 
  another 
  pair 
  

   in 
  a 
  fir 
  tree 
  in 
  Glen 
  Quoich. 
  In 
  Glen 
  Derry 
  a 
  pair 
  bred 
  in 
  a 
  

   fir 
  tree 
  ; 
  but 
  a 
  few 
  years 
  ago 
  the 
  tree 
  fell, 
  and 
  the 
  birds 
  have 
  

   not 
  been 
  known 
  to 
  nest 
  there 
  since. 
  A 
  pair 
  also 
  bred 
  on 
  the 
  

   northern 
  shoulder 
  of 
  Socach 
  Mor, 
  near 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  Glen 
  Ey. 
  

   A 
  pair 
  bred 
  in 
  Glen 
  Beg. 
  They 
  were 
  seen 
  there 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Clark, 
  

   secretary 
  to 
  Aberdeen 
  Natural 
  History 
  Society, 
  in 
  1899. 
  

  

  After 
  the 
  breeding 
  season 
  the 
  birds 
  wander 
  far 
  from 
  their 
  

   nesting-places, 
  and 
  too 
  frequently 
  fall 
  a 
  prey 
  to 
  the 
  thought- 
  

   less 
  keeper 
  and 
  prowling 
  poacher. 
  At 
  such 
  periods 
  they 
  are 
  

   often 
  seen 
  singly, 
  or 
  in 
  pairs, 
  about 
  the 
  mountainous 
  region 
  

   which 
  forms 
  the 
  watershed 
  between 
  "Moray" 
  and 
  "Dee," 
  

   especially 
  so 
  about 
  the 
  hills 
  at 
  the 
  head 
  of 
  Glenbucket, 
  where 
  

   Mr. 
  Fletcher, 
  steward 
  upon 
  the 
  Glenbucket 
  estate, 
  sees 
  them 
  

   frequently 
  ; 
  as 
  also 
  away 
  towards 
  Ben 
  Avon, 
  from 
  which 
  

  

  I 
  

  

  