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Letters , Extracts , and Notes. 
XXXVI.— Letters , Extracts , and Notes. 
We have received the following letters addressed to the 
Editors :— 
Sirs, —Since the publication of ray article in the April 
number of f The Ibis* (above, p. 285), I have received some 
further notes on Pithecophaga jefferyi from Mr. Willoughby 
Lowe, communicated to him by Father Llanos, of Manila. 
It should, however, be understood that Father Llanos 
received his information from natives, and that it would 
be unwise to place too much reliance upon its exact 
accuracy. 
(1) . The Eagle sent to London alive was captured in 
September 1908 by means of a snare. 
(2) . The nests of the Eagle are made of small dry 
branches : they are neither very large nor deep. The sticks 
are firmly held together by the bird's own excrement. 
Ordinarily these Eagles lay four eggs, and incubation lasts 
about twenty-four days. 
“ (3). The usual food of these Eagles is fish, which is 
captured along the sea-shore, but they also eat hogs, monkeys, 
cats, &c. 
“ (4). Their resort is generally near the shore, in the high 
rocks and crags. 
“ (5). After making the nest and during incubation and 
the rearing of their young they are very fierce ; they attack 
and kill anything that approaches. 
“ (6). The place in Mindanao where this bird was captured 
is called f Sandag, Sarigas.* 
(7). A little time after its capture a snare was laid in 
the same manner as before, and there came its mate, which 
must have been the male bird and much larger in size, and, 
seizing the bait, gave a strong tug, and broke the cord which 
held the snare, and escaped." 
The last paragraph in these notes would seem to throw 
some doubt on my statement that the specimen recently 
possessed by the Zoological Society was a female. 
