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suffer severely—a pair of Eagles generally assisting each other in this kind 
of hunt, sweeping alternately at the devoted victim, compelling it to dive 
until it is exhausted for lack of breath, when it makes for the shore and is 
instantly killed. Audubon records a case of one of these Eagles attempt- 
ing to carry off a child, which it did not succeed in doing in consequence 
of the dress of the babe giving way. When hard pressed for food, he will 
devour carrion, and even compel the Turkey-buzzard to disgorge, and will 
then swallow the fetid morsel. 
For many years a pair of these birds bred on a high oak tree, upon the 
farm of Prof. Kirtland, on a precipice overlooking the Lake. The original 
tree on which this nest was built, was destroyed, and the birds immedi- 
ately selected one close to it, for their future home. This nest is now used, 
and in all probability contains eggs or young at the present time. Nine 
or ten years ago, the female was shot by some one, and the male left the 
locality for that season. Next year, he came back with a new mate, and 
with her established themselves in the old nest. When the young are 
able to forage for themselves, the parents drive them away; but they 
remain in the vicinity of the nest, and roost on the same tree for a consid- 
erable time after they are able to fly. 
The flight of this bird is very powerful, and it can ascend to great hights 
with little apparent exertion, sweeping in wide curves upward, on almost 
motionless wings, until it appears like a mere speck in the sky. 
The length of this Eagle is about three feet; extent of wings seven feet; 
bill, two and three-fourths inches along the upper ridge; tarsi three, and 
middle toe three and a half inches. In the adult, the head and tail, with 
the upper and under coverts of the latter, are white, the rest of the plu- 
mage dark-brown; bill and feet yellow. The young bird has the entire 
plumage brown, with the bill blackish; slight mottlings of white on the 
tail, especially on the inner margins of the feathers. The iris of the young 
bird is also brown, while that of the adult is yellow. 
There are several specimens in the Museum of the Cleveland Academy 
of Natural Sciences. 
HALLETUS WASHINGTONII—THE WASHINGTON SEA HAGLE. 
Audubon’s Birds of America, Oct. ed., I, p. 53, pl. 18. 
Considerable doubt exists in regard to this eagle, no naturalist having 
been able to identify the bird since the time Audubon discovered and de- 
