10 BRITISH BIRDS. 



of Scotland, had a tame eagle, which the keeper one 

 day, very injudiciously, thought proper to lash with a 

 horsewhip for some petty fault. About a week after- 

 wards, the man chanced to stoop within reach of its 

 chain ; when the enraged bird, recollecting the late in- 

 sult, flew in his face so furiously and violently, that he 

 was much wounded, but happily, driven so far back by 

 the blow, as to be out of all further danger. The 

 family alarmed by the screams of the eagle, found the 

 offender lying at some distance in a fearful plight, while 

 the bird was pacing and crying in a manner equally 

 threatening and majestic. It was even dreaded that 

 the eagle might break loose in the violence of its rage, 

 which it did just as they withdrew, and escaped. 



An eagle, which excited great interest, was some 

 years ago in the Garden of Plants, at Paris. It w^as 

 taken in the forest of Fontainbleau, in a fox-trap, the 

 spring of which broke its claws, which rendered a pain- 

 ful operation necessary ; but, though the cure w'as te- 

 dious, the eagle displayed great patience. Its head only 

 was at liberty during the operation, but it did not oppose 

 the dressing of the wound, from which several splinters 

 were taken ; nor did it attempt to disturb the operations 

 which the fracture required. Swathed in a napkin, and 

 laid on one side, the eagle passed the w^hole night on 



