. Our northern and eastern birds [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces, together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs ; with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. OUNITIIOLOGY AND OOLOGY. on the branch, lie watclies the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attent
. Our northern and eastern birds [microform] : containing descriptions of the birds of the northern and eastern states and British provinces, together with a history of their habits, times of arrival and departure, their distribution, food, song, time of breeding, and a careful and accurate description of their nests and eggs ; with illustrations of many species of the birds and accurate figures of their eggs. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. OUNITIIOLOGY AND OOLOGY. on the branch, lie watclies the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention; the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment, the eager looks of the Eagle are all ardor; and, levelling his neck far flight, he sees the Fish-hawk once more emerge, struggling ^^ ith his prey, and mounting in the air witli screams of exultatior. These are the signal for our hero, who, launching into the air. instantly gives cliase, and soon gains on the Fish-hawk: each exerts his utmost to mount above the other, displaying in these rencontres the most eleirant and sublime aerial evolutions. The unencumbered Eagle rapidly advances, and is just on the point of reaching his opponent, when, with a sudden scream, probably of despair and honest execration, the latter drops his fish : the Eagle, poising himself for a moment, as if to take a more certain aim, descends like a whirl- wind, snatches it in his grasp ere it reaches the water, and bears his ill-gotten booty silently away to the woods. "These predatory attacks and defensive manoeuvres of the Eagle and the Fish-hawk are matters of daily observation along the whole of our seaboard, from Georgia to New England, and frequently excite great interest in the spectators. Sympathy, however, on this as on most other occasions, generally cides with the honest and laborious sufferer, in opposition to the attacks of power, injustice, and rapacity; qualities f
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