New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-29
Getting an EagIeE.

The inaccessible sleeps on which eagles build
their eyre, the height to which they soar, often
rising quite out of sight; their keen vision their
caution, and especially their avoidance of all
neighborhoOd with the low-ands where men have
their dwelling-all these causes together make it
of rare occurrence to get shot at an eagle. Yet
there are some favored mortals to whom such
good fortune has been accorded more than once.
Count Arco, a celebrated sportsman, shot ten
four in the neighbOrhOOd of their eyrie, and the
others by waiting for them at spot where kid
or chamois was exposed; for though eagles will
not eat earrion, they take the lesh Of an animal
recently killed.
/ give here detailed account of this gentle
mans successful attempt to carry Off an eaget
from the eyrie and make use of his own words,
just as he entered them in his dairy on the occa-
sion:
JUNE 13, 186O.-Arriyed at Rohrmoos, in Allgau,
an estate belonging to Prince Frederick Walburg
WoIfegg-Waldsee. thirty miles from the Lake of
Constance at seven O'Clock in the morning. In
mediately held consultation with the land-stew
ard, and started with him for the spot. The whole
90 Wand, y or wall of rock, may be about three or
four hundred feet in height, and above the recess
where the eyre was built, projects distance of
at least twenty-five feet. The face of this rock
was about six hundred PAGES broad. Nearly half
way up this precipice there is path which the
chamois take in passing to and fro, two or three
feet broad, where very good climber and expert
mOuntaineer might get along pretty easily. 10
approach nearer than this to the eyrie is beyond
ali human possibility. Below it, and growing on
IDlS very PAIN, WIS a Sole sinai III, ana dDOFe
grew a bushy red yew which | resolved to make
use of as hiding-place whence to shoot the old
birds, before attempting TO reach the eyrie from
the little fir below. Weber, the steward, and
myself, now fetched, with much difficulty, 3 guam
tity of fir and pine branches and built up sort of
bower, from which place of concealment l hoped
to get shot at the parent birds.
JUNE l4.--Watched in my place of conceal
added to the delights of these fourteen hours. At
8 O'Clock in the afternoon the eagess came, and
before she could quite fly into the eyrie shot her.
/ She dropped at once though when decended,
after three honrs spent in waiting for her mate
| failed to find her. Next morning, however, dis
covered her in cliff in the rock.
To get the eagle himself was the next task.
Day after day watched, but he seemed to detect
me. One day he perched on the edge Of the pro
| cipice two hundred yards off, on dead tree, and
never once ceased gazing at me in my conceal
ment for two full hours. watched him the whole
time with my telescope, through the small port
| hole in my SCREEN and saw distinctly that he was
occupied uninteTuptedly and exclusively, in dis
covering if was inside or not. His countless
various movements with the head, neck and eyes
were in high degree interesting. Bitterly un-
comfortable as it was to do so still resolved not
| to STIR as his cunning would assuredly have dis.
| covered the least movement on my part. Those
were two painful hours At last he spread his
| large pinions, and with single rush shot away
| from the rock and disappeared over the ridge.
thought, should he not have observed me he will
certainly think all is right and will go to fetch
| provender for his young. If, on the contrary he
does notreturn, then he assuredly has seen me i'll
| spite Of my cOnCealment.
An hour had scarcely passed when I suddenly
heard a rushing noise, and at the same moment he
had already flown past the eyrie. In doing so he
had, with dexterity equal to his cunning, flung
sideways to his offspring roe-kid which he held in
his taons, and then, instantaneously folding his
long wings close to his body, dropped like stone
through the air, distance of two hundred feet
when suddenly, as with start, spreading
I before.
I All this was the work of moment so that il
never once entered my head to fire. The extreme
cunning of the creature in letting himself fall in
I, this way completely stupifed me-
II he does so always, then L thought, do not
know how am to hit him. Just after five O'Clock
I heard again the same rushing sound and again
| before l could think of firing, he had dropped
down and vanished in the deep, finging food to
his young in the nest and securing himself against
the chance Of fdanger, just. in the same way as he
had done in forenoon.
This time, however, REMARKED that while with
his taons he flung the food in the eyrie, he smul.
| taneously tapped twice very quickly with his