86 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 

Fic. 19. Gutu’s Nest on Rorren Loa, with eggs starred and nearly ready to 
hatch, probably belonging to a bird which had earlier failed, but had renewed its 
activities in time to sucessfully rear young. July 20. 
stayed at terms 3 or 4. Now it might be supposed that those nests 
which appear in middle or late July (Figs. 17-18) were the work of 
young birds, or of others which for some cause had not met with earlier 
success, but this is certainly not always the case. for the space of 
several days I watched a pair of gulls, which had large chicks to feed, 
and repeatedly saw them leave their young and begin the construction 
of a new nest about a rod from the old one. The female would split 
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Fic. 20. WHITE-HEADED EAGLH’S Nest or THE First Ywar, built in 1900, by 
the owners of the «rie shown in Fig. 21, which was destroyed the previous winter. 
The nest is considerably broader than tall. 
