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Show WHERE EAGLES BUILD NE8T8. Inaccessible Bpota Always Selected for the Home. A writer who haB studied the hablta of oagles among the Scottish hills says! that tho birds construct their eyries toward tho end of March and tho eggs, which number two or three, are laid In April. Ragles seem to prefer for a nesting site some ancient pine with a southern position nnd wldo outlook or a lodge on n cliff, but this writer noticed no-ticed that they sometimes build their oyrles on quite small rocks, where they can bo got at without much difficulty, diffi-culty, while nil around nro lmnienso precipices whero man's foot has nov-er nov-er trod. It has been sntd that the eagles will fearlessly attack any ono attempting to rob Its eggs and young, but this Is probably much less often tho case than Is generally supposed. When one of a pair of eagles Is trapped trap-ped or shot tho remaining bird has often great difficulty In finding a mate and may haunt Its nesting site for several years by Itself. Whllo soaring round and round their eyrie the eagles utter a musical noto somewhat similar to tho cry of a wild goose. |