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daw two inches and a half. The npper parts of the body 

 are dark, shining, coppery-brown ; throat, front, and breast, 

 rich bright cinnamon colour. The whole appearance of the 

 bird grand and majestic. 



ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. 



Mr. Nuttall says, " It is to the indefatigable Audubon, 

 that we owe the distinct notice and description of this noble 

 Eagle, which first drew his attention while voyaging far up 

 the Mississippi, in the month of February, 1814. At length, 

 he had the satisfaction of discovering its eyry in the high 

 cliffs of Green Kiver in Kentucky, near to its junction with 

 the Ohio ; two young were discovered loudly hissing from a 

 fissure in the rocks, on the approach of the male, from whom 

 they received a fish. The female now also came, and with 

 solicitous alarm for the saf-^ity of her young, gave a loud 

 scream, dropped the food she had brought, and hovering 

 over the molesting party, kept up a growling and threaten- 

 ing cry by way of intimidation ; and, in fact, as our disap- 

 pointed naturalist soon discovered, she from this time 

 forsook the spot, and found means to convey away her 

 young. The discoverer considers the species as rare ; indeed, 

 its principal residence appears to be in the northern parts 

 of the continent, particularly the rocky solitudes around the 

 great north-western lakes, where it can at all times collect 

 its finny prey, and rear its young without the dread of man. 

 In the winter season, about January and Febroaryy as wall 



