A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . age, squeezes the fish with its talons, and immedi-ately proceeds towards its nest, to feed its young, or to a tree, to devourthe fruit of its industry in peace. When it has satisfied its hunger, it doesnot, like other hawks, stay perched until hunger again urge
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . age, squeezes the fish with its talons, and immedi-ately proceeds towards its nest, to feed its young, or to a tree, to devourthe fruit of its industry in peace. When it has satisfied its hunger, it doesnot, like other hawks, stay perched until hunger again urges it forth, butusually sails about at a great height over the neighboring waters. The fish hawk has a great attachment to the tree to which it carries ...and will not abandon it, unless frequently disturbed, or shot atwhilst feeding there. It shows the same attachment to the tree on whichit has built its first nest, and returns to it year after year. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 191 The Swallow-tailed Hawk.—This beautiful kite breeds and passe? thesummer in the warmer parts of the United States, and is also probably-resident in all tropical and temperate America, migrating into the southernas well as the northern hemisphere. In the former, according to Viellot,it is found in Peru, and as far as Buenos Ayres; and though it is extremely. Swallow-tailed Hawk. rare to meet with this species as far as the latitude of forty degrees in theAtlantic states, yet, tempted by the abundance of the fruitful valley of theMississippi, individuals have been seen along that river as far as the Fallsof St. Anthony, in the forty-fourth degree of north latitude. Indeed,according to Fleming, two stragglers have even found their devious wayto the strange climate of Great Britain. They appear in the United States about the close of April or beginningof May, and are very numerous in the Mississippi territory, twenty orthirty being sometimes visible at the same time, often collecting locusts andother large ins
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