. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . Fig. 260.—Golden Eagles. The Tartars, however, are in the habit of using an Eagle indi-genous to Central Asia to assist in taking the hare, fox, antelope, and EAGLES, 569 wolf. As this bird is weighty, they do not hold it on the fist, butplace it in front of their horses saddle. This species, called the Bere-. Fig. 261.—Imperial Eagles. coot, which is scarcely known by Europeans, is of great power andcourage. A well-known traveller describes a scene he witnes
. Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting . Fig. 260.—Golden Eagles. The Tartars, however, are in the habit of using an Eagle indi-genous to Central Asia to assist in taking the hare, fox, antelope, and EAGLES, 569 wolf. As this bird is weighty, they do not hold it on the fist, butplace it in front of their horses saddle. This species, called the Bere-. Fig. 261.—Imperial Eagles. coot, which is scarcely known by Europeans, is of great power andcourage. A well-known traveller describes a scene he witnessed on S70 REPTILES AND BIRDS. the steppes of Tartary, where a pair of them attacked and killed abrace of wolves with the greatest apparent ease.
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