WEDGE-TAILED EAGLE 153 
inspired with the belief that Eagles work enormous 
havoc among flocks, the Eagle is still occasionally seen 
in this part of the State, approaching the town 
itself at certain periods of high winds. It is not more 
than ten years, I think, since one was shot near the 
Geelong Football Ground. 
Riding one evening from Anglesea to Airey's Inlet, 
I had just reached the summit of the barren, wind- 
swept ridge known as Mount Misery, when, from a 
low clump of gums beneath me, there sailed out on 
the storm-darkened air a really glorious Eagle. I 
had never seen such a large one : his great spread of 
tawny wing stood out clear against the background 
of the barren ranges across the valley. As he swept 
farther and farther west into the angry-looking 
clouds piled about the sunset, I could not but feel 
the real majesty of the Eagle, who indeed is king of 
all fowls of the air. 
He still builds his eyrie in the giant ironbarks of 
that forest. In October, 191 2, we heard of seven 
nests altogether in the neighbourhood of Anglesea 
as having been inhabited from time to time in the 
few years preceding. Two of these we examined, 
one at Scrubby Creek and the other at Bull's Well ; 
the former had not been in use for two seasons, but 
the birds were still resorting to the latter, evidently 
only as a camping-place or perhaps larder, for they 
lay much earlier, in July and August. 
Another rather more distant breeding-place is the 
Werribee Gorge, and again the country about Parwan ; 
