. Adventure--travel--exploration. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Zoology. 278 BIRDS OF PREY eggs are, like those of the buzzard, a whitish ground with brown specks or dots. The care of these eggs is left entirely to the mother bird. After five weeks the little ones are hatched, and are as homely as their parents are stately and beautiful. Very often only one tgg is hatched, but the parent birds give as much love and care to this one little descendant as if it were a whole nest full. Sometimes the old birds will travel for hours through the air carrying some hare or heathcock or a young heron
. Adventure--travel--exploration. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919; Zoology. 278 BIRDS OF PREY eggs are, like those of the buzzard, a whitish ground with brown specks or dots. The care of these eggs is left entirely to the mother bird. After five weeks the little ones are hatched, and are as homely as their parents are stately and beautiful. Very often only one tgg is hatched, but the parent birds give as much love and care to this one little descendant as if it were a whole nest full. Sometimes the old birds will travel for hours through the air carrying some hare or heathcock or a young heron captured from a distant eyrie. The animal is torn to pieces before the ever-hungry young' eaglet and the. GROUP OF VULTURES best bits offered him. His nursery on this account does not present a very inviting appearance. Legs of rabbits, skulls of birds, hair, feathers, bones and wool are strewn all about. Sometimes there is a very bright and pleasing side to this place of skulls; little birds, especially sparrows, build their nests between the twigs and branches of the eyrie and live there quite undisturbed. With this exception the eagle lives alone; one pair never permitting another pair of their kind within their hunting ground. The fact makes their indulgence. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Unger, Frederic William, 1875- [from old catalog]. Philadelphia, Pa. , G. A. Parker
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