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Mar., 1915 NESTING OF THE AMERICAN OSPREY AT EAGLE LAKE 73 feet up at the top of a limbless dead pine, was noted and on the opposite side of the cove two more were seen in similar situations 50 feet and 35 feet up. respectively. A photograph is shown of the latter nest, and it well illustrates the construction and situation of the other two. Crossing a narrow neck of land I came to a second cove and although 1 went but a few hundred feet I came to another nest 50 feet up. This, like all others, was in a dead pine and similar in situation to the second nest found. If the balance of the timbered coves on the lower end of Eagle Lake harbor Fig. 25. THE FIFTH OSPREY'8 I?EST FOUND. IT WAS RUT 35 FEET ABOVE THE WATER OF EAGLE LAKE as many homes of the Osprey as do those near Spalding the number of these birds in the region must be surprisingly large, and as this, so far as I know, is the only definite inland breeding area in California, it becomes a point of par- ticular interest and deserving of especial protection from hunters who usually regard all-Raptores with disfavor. The Eagle Lake region at present is very sparsely populated and I was particularly impressed with the distinctly prime- val conditions of its birdlife, the great tree colonies of Great Blue Herons