A PAIR OF EAGLES 



N a thick damp wood near a 

 lake in Levy county, Flor- 

 ida, stands a tall pine tree 

 which for fifteen years has 

 held a nest of the bald 

 eagle. For ninety-one feet 

 the great pine raises its 

 slender trunk without a 

 branch. Thirty feet higher 

 is the nest in the main fork 

 of the tree, which here 

 sends out three limbs. 



The structure is a large 

 one. Year after year it 

 has been used, and the birds each 

 season, in repairing the damages sus- 

 tained during the months when it was 

 unoccupied, have added material un- 

 til it has become more than four feet in thickness. In width 

 it is likewise about four feet. Some of the sticks used 

 extend outward at the sides, making the diameter of the 

 nest, if these be included, fully six feet. The material of 



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