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LIVING CREATURES. 



Bald Eagle. 



45. "LIONS OF THE AIR 



WERE the birds of prey arranged in a line accord- 

 ing to their sizes, there would be at one end of the 

 row the pigeon-hawk eleven inches long, and at the 

 other end the South American condor three and a 

 half feet long, from bill to tail, and nine feet between 

 the tips of its extended wings. 



Young readers in the country are acquainted with 

 these " lions" through the chicken-hawk and the owl. 



