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transferring three eggs to my handkerchief and getting back safely when I drew a long breath for although the danger was very slight yet one does not feel exactly comfortable when a slight misstep would leave him dangling in mid air about 150 feet over a pile of sharp rocks below -

The nest was on a mossy shelf and the body of the  structure composed of coarse stalks of weeds with a thick lining of soft grass It was about 24 inches in diameter and the slight hollow in the centre about 10 in. in diameter 

The eggs proved fine fresh specimens.