74 THE BEE, OR Jan. l^j- 



" There were two large pieces, a leg and a flioulcler, ly- 

 ing upon a wooden platter. Into thefe he truffed both his 

 claws, and carried them off ; but I thought he looked wift- 

 fuUy at the large piece which remained in the warm water. 

 Away he went flowly along the ground as he had come. 

 The face of the cliff over which criminals are thrown, took 

 him from our fight." 



He foon, however, returned, and gave Mr. Bruce a fair 

 opportunity of fhooting him, which gave occafion for ob- 

 ferving a phenomenon, not a little Angular in its kind, 

 " Upon laying hold of his monftrous carcafe," our adventu- 

 rous traveller proceeds," I was not a little furprifed at fee- 

 ing my hands covered and tinged with yellow pov/der or 

 dull. Upon turning him upon his Lell/', and examining 

 the feathers of his back, they produced a brown duft, the 

 colour of the feathers there. This dull was not in fmall 

 quantities-, for, Upon ftriking his breaft, the yellow powder 

 flew out in fully greater quantity than from a hair-dreffer's 

 powder puff. The feathers of the belly and breaft, which 

 were of a gold colour, did not appear to have any thing ex- 

 traordinary in their formation j but the large feathers in 

 the fhoulder and wings, feemed apparently to be fine tubes, 

 which, upon preffure, fcattered this duft upon the finer part 

 of the feathers; but this was brown, the colour of the fea- 

 thers of the back." 



What the ufes of this powder weix intended by nature, out 

 traveller is at a lofs to fay. He conjefturesit may have been 

 intended in fome way to fortify the animal againft the ri- 

 gours of the feafon it would experience in that lofty.fitua- 

 tion : But this conjefture does not feem to be corroborated 

 by the other fafts he there ftates. However this may be, 

 it feems to be a peculiarity of this animal of a very un- 

 common kind, and might well have entitled it to the name 

 of the Powdered Eagle, a name which would have pre- 

 vented the danger of confounding it with another eagle, 

 which has long been known by that of the Golden Eagle. 



