. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. I 46 SEA EAGLE. add anything further on the subject, as the reasoning of Wilson ia conclusive. Our author describes an Eagle's nest, which he visited, in company with the writer of this article, on the eighteenth of May, 1812. It was then empty; but from every appearance a brood had been hatched and reared in it that season. The following year, on the first day of March, a friend of ours took from the same nest three eggs, th
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Birds; Oiseaux. I 46 SEA EAGLE. add anything further on the subject, as the reasoning of Wilson ia conclusive. Our author describes an Eagle's nest, which he visited, in company with the writer of this article, on the eighteenth of May, 1812. It was then empty; but from every appearance a brood had been hatched and reared in it that season. The following year, on the first day of March, a friend of ours took from the same nest three eggs, the largest of which measured three inches and a quarter in length, two and a quarter in diameter, upwards of seven in eircimiferetiee, and wcigluMl four ounces five drams, apothecaries weight; the tidor a dirty yMlowisli white—one was of a very pale bluish white; the young were perfectly formed. Such was the solicitude of the female to preserve her eggs, that she did not abandon the nest, until several blows, with an axe, had been siven the tree. In the history of Lewis and Clark's Expedition, we find the following account of an Eagle's nest, which must have added not a little to the picturesque effect of tiie magnificent scenery at the Falls of the Mis- souri : " Just below the upper pitch is a little island in the middle of the river, well covered with timber. Here on a cottonwood tree an Eaglo had fixed its nest, and seemed the undisputed mistress of a spot, to contest whose dominion neither man nor beast would venture across the gulfs that surround it, and whieli is further secured by the mist rising from the ;* The Bald Eagle was obscrvcil, by Lewis and Clark, during their whole route to the Pacific Oeean. It may gratify some of our readers to be informed, that the opinion of Tcmminck loincides with ours respecting the identity of our Hald and Sea Eagles; but he states that the Fali'o dHiiifnri/uK of (iniclin, the Sea Eagle of Latham, is the young of the F
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