. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. — THE FALCONS. 317. Ai/iiila mnwiensis. in the Ibis (.f ISGl (p. 112), gives a very inftjresting account of a pair of Golden Eagles, which the previous season built their nest in a large Scotch tir-tree, in a wood on the southern bank of Glen Lyon, in Perthshire, ^v•ithin a few hundred yards of JMeggerine Castle. Four eggs were laid, two of which were hatched. The nest was one of the Eagles' own con- struction, and is specially interest- ing from being in sucii near i)rox- inuty
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. — THE FALCONS. 317. Ai/iiila mnwiensis. in the Ibis (.f ISGl (p. 112), gives a very inftjresting account of a pair of Golden Eagles, which the previous season built their nest in a large Scotch tir-tree, in a wood on the southern bank of Glen Lyon, in Perthshire, ^v•ithin a few hundred yards of JMeggerine Castle. Four eggs were laid, two of which were hatched. The nest was one of the Eagles' own con- struction, and is specially interest- ing from being in sucii near i)rox- inuty to human habitations. Mr. Tristram (Iliis, ;J, p. 283, in liis valuable note on the birds of North Africa), while he never ob- served this Eagle in any of the clifi's among the mountain ranges of the desert, found it almost gregarious, so abundant was it among the Day- ets. In one wood he saw no less than seven pairs of the Eagles, each pair with a wqa. There were, be- sides, many unoccupied nests, and, indeed, very few terebinths of any size were witiiout a huge platform of sticks on the topmost boughs. The birds were undisturbed, and consequently very fearless. On the other hand Mr , m the same volume (p. 180) among the mountains of Eastern Atlas describes very different manner of life in the same birds. "Whatever rock a pair may choose for their eyrie, there they reign alone in dignified solitude, nor do hey allow a single Vulture, Kite, or indeed any other species of rapacious bird to occupy with their nest a single spot in the same rock, however eligible or the purpose; nor are these other species ever t<» be seen in the haunts of their exclusive majesties. The whole southern precipice at Djebel Dekma was thus tenanted by a single pair of this Eagle, as also several other rocks that came under our notice. Instances of the Golden Eagle buildinc. i„ trees were by no means of unfrequent occurrence" The extreme southern range of the European bi
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