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that it stinks most offensively. This eagle is not 

 bald till he is one or two years old. 



The gray eagle is altogether the same sort of 

 bird as the eagle in Europe ; therefore we shall 

 treat no farther of him. 



The fishing hawk is the eagle's jackal, which 

 most commonly (though not always) takes his 

 prey for him. He is a large bird, being above 

 two thirds as big as the eagle. He builds his nest 

 as the eagles do ; that is in a dead cypress tree, 

 either standing in or hard by the water. The 

 eagle and this bird seldom sit on a living tree. 

 He is of a gray pied color, and the most dexterous 

 fowl in nature at catching of fish, which he wholly 

 lives on, never eating any flesh. 



The turkey buzzard of Carolina is a small vul- 

 ture which lives on dead carcasses. They are 

 about the bigness of the fishing hawk, and have a 

 nasty smell with them. They are of the kites 

 color, and are reported to be an enemy to snakes 

 by killing all they meet withal of that kind. 



The herring, or swallow-tailed hawk, is about 

 the bigness of a Falcon, but a much longer bird. 

 He is of a delicate aurora color ; the pinions of 

 his wings, and end of his tail are black. He is a 

 very beautiful fowl, and never appears abroad but 

 in the summer. His prey is chiefly on snakes, 

 and will kill the biggest we have with a great deal 

 of dexterity and ease. 



Goshawks are very plentifuHn Carolina. They 

 are not seemingly so large as those from Muscovy; 

 but appear to be a very brisk bird. 



