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PLINY. 



The Haliseetus remains, with eyesight of the keen- 

 est, poising itself aloft when it spies fishes in the sea 

 below, then dashing headlong on them and securing 

 them, the waters being parted by its breast. 



ARISTOTLE. 



The Haliseetos, that is to say Sea Eagle, has 

 the neck both big and thick, bowed wings, and 

 a broad tail. It bides upon the sea-coast and the 

 shores. It often happens, when it cannot lift what 

 it has taken, that it is submerged beneath the tide. 



The Osprey is a bird much better known to-day to 

 Englishmen than many who keep fish in stews would 

 wish ; for within a short time it bears off every fish. 

 Our anglers smear or mix their bait with Osprey's fat, 

 arguing that thus the bait will prove more efficacious from 

 the fact that, when the Osprey hovers in the air, whatever 

 fishes be below turn up and shew their whitish bellies (as it 

 is believed, the nature of the Aquila compelling them to 

 this), that it may choose that one which it prefers. 



OF THE TRUE AQUILA FROM ARISTOTLE. 



The sixth kind men call Genuine, or true and 

 thoroughbred. Of all the various kinds of Aquilae 

 this is the only one that is believed to be of true 

 and unstained origin. This is the largest of all 

 Aquilse and bigger even than the Ossifrage, for it 

 surpasses by one half as much the other Aquilae ; 

 in colour it is reddish brown, but it is rarely seen. 



OF THE ARDEA. 



epo)8to9, ardea, in English a heron, in German eyn 

 reyger. 



