IQQ AQUILA CHRYSAETUS. 



Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, 

 The Royal Eagle draws his vigorous young, 

 Strong-pounced, and ardent with paternal fire, 

 Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own. 

 He drives them from his fort, the tow'ring seat, 

 Forages, of his empire; which in peace, 

 Unstained he holds, while many a league to sea 

 He wings his course, and preys in distant isles.' 



Thojison's Seasons. 



Young Bird pledged. — The bill is brownish-black, 

 paler at the base ; the cere pale greenish-yellow ; the 

 irides dark brown ; the feet lemon-yellow ; the claws 

 brownish-black. The general colour of the plumage 

 is deep brown, that of the head and hind-neck, as well 

 as the short feathers of the legs and tarsi, pale yel- 

 lowish-brown. The base of the feathers is white, and 

 that colour appears in patches on the hind-neck, the 

 scapulars, some of the wing-coverts, and the greater 

 part of the tail, the terminal third only being dark 

 brown. The lower tail-coverts are dull white, each 

 with a light brown patch towards the end. 



Progress towards maturity As the bird ad- 

 vances in age, the white of the basal portion of the 

 feathers diminishes in extent, so that the spots or 

 patches of that colour gradually disappear from the 

 body and hind-neck, and the tail becomes irregularly 

 barred with dark brown, the intervening white mark- 

 ings diminishing in extent, and becoming shaded with 

 greyish-brown. The dark brown colours of the plumage 

 undergo little change ; but the light yellowish-brown of 

 the head, hind-neck, edges of the wings, and legs, as- 



