2 NOVEMBER 1929, Page 16

This habit of the eagle, though few of us have

the luck to see it, has stirred the wonder of observers in many countries for several thousand years ; but I have never before heard an eye-witness's account within Britain. The locus classicus, in Deuteronomy xxxn. 11, will be known to many. I have quoted it more than once : "As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings—so the Lord." The eagle in Scotland to-day educates its young exactly as the eagle in Palestine before the birth of Christ.