Show eagles A As garne game butchers I 1 have discovered that the largo black eagle Is very destructive lo io panto game as n antelope I 1 ind and deer find especially mountain sheep I 1 h have ave been observing their habits closely for the past ten years yeara and as I 1 live ut the head of the coudre river where ganic game Is quite plentiful I 1 have had bad ample opportunities for observation tion there Is a bund buil ot of about twenty va mountain sheep near here they ba have v c icen beell here for the past ten yeara but they do biot seem to increase in num numbers berA and I 1 beldom can see ECO that they bao even raided a lamb I 1 can always r a Ys tell where the sheep nrc dreby by the eagles flying dying around above them anti and have frequently seen icon these eagles attack and doer deer adf it they can betany animal in it place where it cannot escape they will kill it and it if they see ece it a sheep out on a precipice they H III dart dott n against it anti and push it off I 1 lave have often seen carcasses ot of sheep partly devoured by eagles cables lying beneath the aud and I 1 ani am satisfied tint that this Is the ivirty they were killed people la in this vicinity have seen eagles attack 2 year old colts colta they n III catch a colt on a steep hillside clasp their wings about lu its neck eck tear open Us its jugular vein and cling there until the colt drops I 1 have had several colts killed hilled but never knew until recently nhat killed hilled then them I 1 rm am now satisfied that they were killed by ca iles and unless a heavy hea vy bounty Is 18 put on these barda I 1 bellevo believe th at mountain sheep will be extinct in ten years to say nothing of damage done to domestic animals nt before the county was settled the sheep use used to go to the foothills to have their young out ol of the way of the eagles but now they are compelled by dogs anti and pothunter to seek refuse re go on oil high abrupt and rocky peach where these eagles livek small wonder thai they do not increase hafti sir |