. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals ... found in the course of his travels . right of the strongest allows himoften to snatch away the hawks latest prey, or tear away a dove fromthe claws of a falcon. In March the golden eagle begins his builds his eyrie on some unapproachable rock or crag in the moun-tains or on the topmost branch of a tree. The foundation of the nestis of branches, the inner walls are of hair, heather and grass. The O77
. Roosevelt's African trip; the story of his life, the voyage from New York to Mombasa, and the route through the heart of Africa, including the big game and other ferocious animals ... found in the course of his travels . right of the strongest allows himoften to snatch away the hawks latest prey, or tear away a dove fromthe claws of a falcon. In March the golden eagle begins his builds his eyrie on some unapproachable rock or crag in the moun-tains or on the topmost branch of a tree. The foundation of the nestis of branches, the inner walls are of hair, heather and grass. The O77) 278 BIRDS OF PREY eggs are, like those of the buzzard, a whitish ground with brownspecks or dots. The care of these eggs is left entirely to the motherbird. After five weeks the little ones are hatched, and are as homelyas their parents are stately and beautiful. Very often only one egg ishatched, but the parent birds give as much love and care to this onelittle descendant as if it were a whole nest full. Sometimes the oldbirds will travel for hours through the air carrying some hare orheathcock or a young heron captured from a distant eyrie. Theanimal 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 avery inviting appearance. Legs of rabbits, skulls of birds, hair,feathers, bones and wool are strewn all about. Sometimes there is avery bright and pleasing side to this place of skulls; little birds,especially sparrows, build their nests between the twigs and branchesof the eyrie and live there quite undisturbed. With this exception theeagle lives alone; one pair never permitting another pair of theirkind within their hunting ground. The fact makes their indulgence BIRDS OF PREY 279 to the little birds seem all the more wonderful. The sparrows seemto know that they are safe from the claws of the eagle, even thoughthey are living in his eyrie, and they know equally well that while
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