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The article on star formation in the Eagle nebula badly misrepresents the implications of recent observations of this object. For example, the subtitle is “The Eagle’s EGGs: Not so fertile,” yet the stated conclusion of the recent work is that more of the Eagle’s EGGs contain young stellar objects than might have been expected. Rather than an unpleasant surprise, the new observations are actually in substantial agreement with predictions of the paper we published in 1996 and are fully consistent with the suggestion that a majority of the low-mass stars in the region formed in such structures.