VARIOUS SPECIES Of EAGLES. 63 



condor. The spread of his wings is about ten feet ; he weighs 

 from eighteen to twenty-four pounds, and can easily carry off 

 in his talons kids, lambs, and even children. 



The Strinadler, which, like the preceding, belongs to the 

 inaccessible mountains of the cantons of Claris, Schwyz, the 

 Grisons, Appenzell, and Berne, would seem to be a variety 

 or sub-species of the Aquila imperialis. The inhabitants of 

 Eblingen, a village on the borders of the Lake of Brienz, 

 hunt him vigorously. Finally, some eagles there are which 

 only sojourn in the Alps temporarily; they appear to be 

 astray; such are 



The Circaetus leucopsis, which has a particular affection for 

 serpent-haunted districts ; 



The Haliatus Zeucocephala, with head and tail of a milky 

 white, belonging to the north of Europe and America ; and 



The Neophron percnopterus, or Egyptian eagle, of carrion- 

 like odour, which is sometimes met with in the neighbour- 

 hood of Geneva. 



The tawny-headed vulture ( Vultur fulvus), and the ashy 

 vulture (Vultur anereus), with gray-brown mouth, and a 

 brownish collar round his bare neck, are extremely rare in 

 Switzerland. 



But we now take leave of the eagle, and turn our atten- 

 tion to the lowly wren, whose charming but simple music 

 has been described in charming but simple verse by Bishop 



Mant : 



" The quick note of the russet wren, 



Familiar to the haunts of men ; 



