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While I had the glass on him, an eagle suddenly 
swooped down and attacked him. The stag went 
headlong into a bog, but managed to get up. I 
then ran back for the gentleman thinking we 
would have a shot, but by the time we got back 
the stag and eagle were over the sky-line and the 
eagle still following while going over the sky-line, 
but after that we don't know what happened, as 
both eagle and stag went out of sight." 
Donald Matheson, who has had a lifelong 
experience in the forest and has only recently 
retired after having been for many years stalker 
at Glen Shieldaig to Mr. C. J. Murray of Loch 
Carron, told me that on one occasion, but on one 
occasion only, he saw an eagle attack an adult 
stag. 
" It would be, as far as I remember," he said, 
" between the 6th and 10th of October in the 
year 1888 when I was spying one morning at the 
forest stables. I picked up a stag on the top of 
Glen Shieldaig, quietly feeding on the Glaschnoc 
side, and while having my glass still on the stag 
an eagle swooped down on his head. The stag 
fell on his hind-quarters, but was soon on his 
feet again and ran for his life while the eagle was 
fixed on him. The stag made for a thick clump 
