. Birds in their haunts, by the late C. A. Johns . ded ; plumage of the head, back of the neckand legs, lustrous reddish brown, of the rest of the body dark brown ;primaries nearly black ; secondaries brownish black ; tail dark grey,barred and tipped with brownish black ; beak bluish at the base, blackat the extremity ; iris brown ; cere and feet yellow ; claws bluish of the male three feet, that of the female more ; breadth eightfeet. Eggs dirty white, mottled with pale reddish brown. The fable of the Eagle soaring to a great height in order to enjoya gaze at the sun in his unclo
. Birds in their haunts, by the late C. A. Johns . ded ; plumage of the head, back of the neckand legs, lustrous reddish brown, of the rest of the body dark brown ;primaries nearly black ; secondaries brownish black ; tail dark grey,barred and tipped with brownish black ; beak bluish at the base, blackat the extremity ; iris brown ; cere and feet yellow ; claws bluish of the male three feet, that of the female more ; breadth eightfeet. Eggs dirty white, mottled with pale reddish brown. The fable of the Eagle soaring to a great height in order to enjoya gaze at the sun in his unclouded brilliancy, is founded probablyon a belief of the ancients, thus stated by the naturalist Pliny:— Before its young are as yet fledged, the Eagle compels them togaze at the rays of the sun, and if it observes one to wink or showa watery eye casts it from the nest as a degenerate offspring; if,on the contrary, it preserves a steady gaze, it is saved from thishard fate, and brought up.*The Golden Eagle, says Maogillivray, seems to prefer live.
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