60 HOMEWARD BOUND. 



ing supplied his own wants, he knows that his young must be 

 provided with food. Therefore he sweeps across the moor, at 

 a height of two or three hundred feet, bending his course to 

 either side, his wings wide-spread, his neck and feet retracted 



FIG. ii. The Eagle's Habitat. 



now beating the air, and again sailing smoothly along. Sud- 

 denly he halts, poises himself for a moment, stoops, but re- 

 covers himself without touching the ground. The object of 



