Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . de-servedly among the notable bridges ofthe world; his works for improving theSouth Pass of the Mississippi delta weresuccessfully completed in 1875-1879;and his great plan for deepening theriver as far as the mouth of the Ohioby means of jetties, has been demon-strated to be entirely practicable. In1884 he received the Albert Medal ofthe Society of Arts, being the firstAmerican citizen so honored. He died inNassau, New Providence, March 8, 1887. EAGLE, a name given to many
Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ..with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps . de-servedly among the notable bridges ofthe world; his works for improving theSouth Pass of the Mississippi delta weresuccessfully completed in 1875-1879;and his great plan for deepening theriver as far as the mouth of the Ohioby means of jetties, has been demon-strated to be entirely practicable. In1884 he received the Albert Medal ofthe Society of Arts, being the firstAmerican citizen so honored. He died inNassau, New Providence, March 8, 1887. EAGLE, a name given to many birdsof prey in the family Falconidx and theorder Accipitres. The golden eagle,the white-headed eagle and the seaeagles are characteristic examples. Thefalcon family includes over 300 preda-ceous birds, feeding for the most part-on living animals, huating by day, andliving usually on exposed rocky places. 450 EAGLE PASS 451 EAR They are cosmopolitan in bill is powerful, but rather short,high at the root, and slightly curved;the partition between the nostrils iscomplete; the upper margin of the eye-. cartila^nous frame-work. The deop,capacious cent! a space to r/hich severalgrooves converge is termed the conclia,and the lowest and pendulous portionof the ear is termed the lobe. The audi-tory canal passes from the concha in-ward and a little forward for rathermore than an inch. It is narrower atthe middle than at either extremity; andon this account there is often consider-able difficulty in extracting foreignbodies which have been insertej into membrane of the tympanum ordrum which terminates it is placedobliquely, in consequence of the lowersurface of the meatus being longer thanthe upper. The canal is partly cartila-ginous and partly osseus; the osseusportion consisting, in the foetus, of aring of bone, across which the mem-brane is stretched, and in many animalsremaining persistently as a separatebone. The orifice of the meatus is con-cealed by a poin
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