of North Carolina. 



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OF THE BIRDS. 



THE EAGLES being accounted the King of the Birds, 

 i shall therefore begin with them. Of these there are 

 three Sorts, viz. the Bald^ the Blach, and the Gray 

 Eagle. The Bald Eagle is the largest, and is so called, because 

 his Head to the middle of the Neck is covered with a white 

 sort of downy Feathers, whereby it looks very bald, and the 

 Tail is as white as Snow, the rest of the Body being of a dark 

 brown colour. These Birds are very great breeders most part 

 of the Year, and always build their jSTests in old decay'd 

 Cyprus, or Pine-trees near the River's side, where they gener- 

 ally lay two Eggs, and sometimes three, but they seldom have 

 four ; as soon as they are hatched, and the young Eagles have 

 down on them, with white woolly Feathers, the Hen Eagles 

 lay again, which Eggs are hatched by the warmth of the young 

 ones in the Nest, so that the flight of one makes room for the 



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