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fine !>(■ Ilii'se I'itnlcs, which was feastiii'; an a large 

 gander, wliich ho liad just killed; but as I he niau sold 

 the eagle, a fine male, for three dollars he lost nothing 

 by the death of his goose. When other food is scarce 

 it feeds c-n offal and carrion like many other species 

 of the birds of prey are wont lo do when deep snows 

 cover the ground. When there is a paucity of wild 

 game, its natural food, this powerful bird, it is a« 

 serted, often becomes very troublesome and frequently 

 attaclcs Ihe young H'f donicstic animals, such as iamba, 

 calves an<l |)igs. 



KAci.ios Di':sTiitn']':i< ma.xy la.nihs. 

 To illustrate Ihe damage which eagles sometimes do 

 on sheep ranches, Dr. Fisher publishes the following 

 letter to Co'l. Ale.xander Macbeth, ot (ieorgeiown, S. 

 C, whicli fully explains how destructive eagles may 

 occasionally bccoinc. Tills letter, as Dr. Fislin oli 

 .serves, "may refer in part lo the Hald Eagle": 



lihems. Georyelown County, S. C, Ma.v :iO. l.SMi. 

 Dear Sir:— Yours 22d instant at hand, and in reply will say 

 that the eagles are mcire destructive to the sheep-growiuij 

 industry in this section than dogs. On one ranch this spring 

 one shepherd alone killed over forty himself, principally by 

 using strychnine. They were worse than we ever knew or 

 before. We lost fully 400 or 500 lambs, as they devour them 

 as Cast as they drop from the old sheep. • * « ^y^. 

 frequently see during eagle or lambing season fifteen to 

 twenty eagles in a covey (or bunch), which shows at a glance 

 that they are very destructive. We have also a tew w.lJ- 

 cats that devour the young sheep, but can manage them better 

 than eagles. 



Yours very truly, 



T. RHKM AND fiONS 



ADI-I/r lUOIOli ATTAI'KKD. 



Some years ago I saw Ihe remains of a (iolden Kagh- 

 hanging, with some jx-lls, on a hunter's cabin in the 

 wilds of Clinton county, Pa., and on making inquiry, 

 learned thai Ihe bird had been shot in the act of at- 



