

CINJiKEOUti, WHiTE-TAILBD, OJl SEA EAGLE.— a«!Ka«s aWkiUa. 



that the prickly skin of the animal would have caused some discomfort in the Eagle's 

 interior. Notliing of the kind, however, happened ; for the Eagle, as is universal among 

 rapacious birds, ejected the skin and indigestilde portions of the hedgehog, and seemed to 

 have felt no inconvenience whatever from the array of prickly spines. The same bird 

 used to spend much of its time in trying to eat a tortoise, a proceeding which the tortoise 

 treated with perfect ecpianimity. The whole story of this bird is rather a curious one, 

 but would occupy too much space in a work of this character. 



It is a fierce and determined bird, having a strange look of' lowering self-will in its 

 eyes. When wounded, it fights most fiercely ; and even when disabled by a broken wing, 

 it has been known to strike so sharply with the sound wing, that the utmost exertions of 

 two men were required before it could be subdued and bound. 



As it is rather an unpleasant neighbour to the farmer, the poultiy-keeper, or the 

 sheep-owner, it is much persecuted, and many ingenious traps are constructed for its 

 destruction. In Norway a small conical hut is built, having the roof open, and a piece of 

 stick, to which is attached a bait, laid across the aperture. Inside the little hut sits a man, 

 looking out for the Eagle. As soon as the bird sees the bait, which is generally a rabbit, 



