. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . s, and doubtless findmutual advantage other than companionship in the method. InSalt Lake Valley, at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains, a pairwere once found eating a full grown gray fox they had just it is doubtful if either could have caught or overpoweredalone. Under stress of hunger or when game is scarce, the birds aresaid to take young lambs or kids, and even to eat animals founddead on the prairie, in this way getting the poison put out for
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . s, and doubtless findmutual advantage other than companionship in the method. InSalt Lake Valley, at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains, a pairwere once found eating a full grown gray fox they had just it is doubtful if either could have caught or overpoweredalone. Under stress of hunger or when game is scarce, the birds aresaid to take young lambs or kids, and even to eat animals founddead on the prairie, in this way getting the poison put out forcoyotes. But only extreme necessity could make them stoop tosuch ignominious quarry, as nothing short of the extermination ofthe buffalo and other legitimate game could have brought thehaughty chiefs adorned with their regal feathers to beg alms. The eagles sweep over the plains and valleys, but the mountainsare their natural homes. On San Francisco Mountain in Arizona Ifound a pair coming every morning to drink and bathe in a pool ofclear snow water above the timber at 11,000 feet. Vernon Bailey. FALCONS, HAWKS, EAGLES, ETC. 165. GENUS HALI^ETUS. 352. Haliseetus leucocephalus {Limi.}. Bald Eagle. Tarsus feathered only half way clown, niiddle and 6»ter toes withoutweb ; wing- pointed, secondaries much shorterthan primaries; tail less than two thirds aslong- as wung-, rounded. Adults. — Head,neck, tail, and tail coverts snowy white ; restof plumage blackish or dark brownish,feathers edg-ed w ith brown. Young : firstyear wholly black except for white bases offeathers showing- through; second or thirdyear under parts mixed black and Avhite :head and neck black, rest of upper i)artsmixed gray, brown, black, and white. Male :length ;]()-;5.). extent about 7 feet, wing-2().;)0, tail , bill : length o4-4:j, extent about 7-8 feet,wing , tail , bill Distribution. — Mainly in the United Statesand Mexico. Breeds in
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