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The reference here is chiefly to the lofty soaring flight of the 

 Eagle, and to the old notion that it was the only created thing that 

 could gaze without shrinking, at the unclouded radiance of the sun. 



The lecterns of churches are often made in the form of an 

 Eagle, to represent the rapid and victorious flight of the Word of 

 Truth over all lands. 



In ancient art, the Eagle appears as bearing the thunderbolts 

 of Jove, and as such is described by Horace as 



]Ministrum fulminis alitem 

 Cui Rex deortim regnum in aves vagas 

 Permisit. 



Tennyson pictures him in his lonely height — 



He clasps the crag with crooked hands ; 

 Close to the sun in lonely lands, 

 King'd Avith the azure world he stands. 



[Genus — Haliaetus.] 



[Haliaetus albicilla — White-tailed Eagle.] 



A rare resident on the Sea Coast of Scotland and Ireland. 



[Genus — Astur.] 



[Aster palumbarius — Gos-Hawk.] 



A rare straggler to Great Britain. 



[Astur atricapillus — American Goshawk.] 

 One killed in Perthshire, 1869 ; one in Tipperary, 1870; and 

 another in King's County, in 1870. 



Genus— ACCIPITER. 

 ACCIPITER NISUS— Sparrow-hawk. 



I have a fine Hawk for the bush. 



Shakespeare— J/erry Wives III., S. 



