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Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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sses of this season seemedto break the ice and I have takenone or two sets each year since then.I had supposed that the eagle was arare bird in this section as I seldomsaw one but I have now located eightpairs within a radius of twenty milesfrom Tombstone. They seem to pre-fer rather barren mountains and neston cliffs near the extreme top of theridges. These cliffs are rarely over150 ft. high but face very steep talusslopes which try wind and musclegreatly in making the ascent. At nearly every nest there is onespecial rock that is used as a perchand its white-washed side can be seenfor miles. One such rock in the Dra-goons is visible from my windowwithout the aid of a glass tho itsairline distance is over ten miles. As previously remarked, the eagle,when flushed, flies straight away andrarely returns while the collector isaround. I have never had an oldeagle make any threatening move to-ward me even when the nest con-tained small young. On one occasion I was interested in THE OOLOGIST
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Typical Nesting cliff showing steep talus slope at its foot, and nest ofGolden Eagle almost in exact center of the picture —Photo by F. C. Willard THE OOLOGIST

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