. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . tage to his parents, at work in the fields at no greatdistance, fell into the pounce of an Eagle, who flew off withthe child in their sight, and was seen no more. Anderson, inhis history of Iceland, says that in that island children of fouror five years of age have occasionally been borne away byEagles ; and Ray relates that in one of the Orkneys a child ofa year old was seized in the talons of this ferocious bird andcarried about four miles to its nest, but the mother, knowingthe place of the eyry, followed the bird, and recov
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America . tage to his parents, at work in the fields at no greatdistance, fell into the pounce of an Eagle, who flew off withthe child in their sight, and was seen no more. Anderson, inhis history of Iceland, says that in that island children of fouror five years of age have occasionally been borne away byEagles ; and Ray relates that in one of the Orkneys a child ofa year old was seized in the talons of this ferocious bird andcarried about four miles to its nest, but the mother, knowingthe place of the eyry, followed the bird, and recovered her childyet unhurt. The Common, or Ring-tailed Eagle, is now found to be theyoung of the Golden Eagle. These progressive changes havebeen observed by Temminck on two living subjects which hekept for several years. The Golden Eagle is generally considered to be a rare bird inNew England and Canada, and, indeed, throughout the settled dis-tricts everywhere : though examples have been taken the continentover, from Greenland to Mexico, and west to the BALD EAGLE. WASHINGTON ^S LEUCOCEPHALUS. Char. Adult: blackish brown, paler on margin of feathers ; head andfail white after third year; bill and feet yellow; legs bare of : dark-er than the adult; no white on head or tail (or concealed bycontour feathers); bill and feet brownish. Length 30 to 40 inches. (The young are larger than the adult birds,and are very similar to the young of the Golden Eagle, though the latterare easily distinguished by their feathered legs.) Aest On a high tree, usually in a crotch, seldom on a dead tree, some-times on a cliff; made of dry sticks loosely arranged, and occasionallyweed-stems and coarse grass are added ; but there is rarely any attempt ata lining. £i:;(^s. 2-3 ; white or pale buff; X 20 BIRDS OF PREV. The Washington Eagle. — It is to the indefatigable Audu-bon that we owe the distinct note and description of this nobleEagle, which first
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