FROM EGG TO EAGLE

THE EGGS as they appeared in the nest. High from the ground in a giant saguaro, safe from snakes and desert rodents. The eggs could not be neglected long for fear of injury under a hot desert sun. One week later (below) we see the birds in the nest, one a look-out, all panting from the heat. Their first formal portrait. (Center above.) No easy task it was to make this study. Painstaking care had to be taken (Center below.) Note (below) dangerous cactus spines had been removed before nest was made.on the desert near Phœnix, Arizona, over a onemonth period. The inquiring cameramen present a study of the "Prairie Eagle," or "Rough Leg Hawk," in its development from the egg.

FROM EGG

TO EAGLE!

SOON strong young wings will carry these birds high in the sky and sunshine, far away into the desert and over mountain crags, free as the winds themselves. A wing spread of 37 inches is shown below, shortly before the bird took its first solo. Note above how majestically this proud desert resident poses in the sunlight. Nature has invested him with strong claws, strong wings, alert eyes. Only the strong survive in Nature's battle for existence on the desert.