. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . ending from the ocean, clearthrough the range to Escondido. It isa wild, rugged, rocky, well-namedcleft, at places widening out to a con-siderable width and in other placesthe sheer walls of rock rise hundredsand hundreds of feet. The sides arebrush covered and in many places arehuge trees and magnificent live oaksand there is very little habitation inthis mountainous valley. A beautifulstream winds and crooks and tumblesand runs along the bottom, finding atlast the sea. As we followed themountain road down this canyon wewere comp
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . ending from the ocean, clearthrough the range to Escondido. It isa wild, rugged, rocky, well-namedcleft, at places widening out to a con-siderable width and in other placesthe sheer walls of rock rise hundredsand hundreds of feet. The sides arebrush covered and in many places arehuge trees and magnificent live oaksand there is very little habitation inthis mountainous valley. A beautifulstream winds and crooks and tumblesand runs along the bottom, finding atlast the sea. As we followed themountain road down this canyon wewere compelled many times to fordthis creek in-first one place, and thenin another, and on the way down wereshown several nesting cites of theGolden Eagle which had been used intimes gone by. Finally arrivingamidst a little grove, in the bottom offthe canyon, the car was stopped andthe party alighted and struck off afoottoward the object of the Mrs. Barnes seated herself ona large boulder and was left with thefield glasses to observe the further ad-. \%-A ! Y ■ -A* CU Nest No. 7 and eggs of Escondido pair of Golden Eagles with Editor of The;Oologist at nest 156 THE OOLOGIST vance of the army. Pushing, pullingand forcing our way through the brushand up a very precipitous, rocky, hill-side on the opposite side of the creek,we at last arrived at the foot of animmense live oak tree. And there inthe forks of which rested the hugenest of the Aquila Chrysaetos, butwhich you and I, reader, call theGolden Eagle. It was a short matterto negotiate that tree and peer overthe rim of the flattened top and restour eye for the first time on the eggsof this bird in situ. Never will theeditor live long enough to forget thethrill of that morning. No oologistevery forgets his first view of thiskind. This nest overlooked the wideexpanse of the valley for miles andmiles, and in it rested the two price-less specimens which come to the lotof but few oologists as personallytaken. A number
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