ISS EAGLES. 



An intelligent inaa in whose veracity I have 

 confidence, says, that the baid eagle is entirely 

 distinct from the grey — that he cannot be mista- 

 ken iii his opinion, for that he has seen the male 

 of each sptcies in connexion with his appropriate 

 female. 



Lawson, in his history of Carolina, says that 

 the bald eagle breeds very often, and lays eggs 

 again under the callow young, whose warmth 

 hatches them. The same thing is said of the pi- 

 cus aiiratus of this country, vulgarly called high 

 hole. These allegations ought to be investigated, 

 as they furnish, if true, a singular anomaly in na- 

 tural history. With respect to the eagle it is pro- 

 bably true, if half of what is alleged b}^ one of the 

 early Naturalists is correct. Johnston, in his ela- 

 borate work printed at Amsterdam MDLVII. 

 speaking ' De aquila in genere,' says — " Datur 

 genus quod propter tres testiculos, Triorchis ap- 

 pellatur. Coeunt vero frequenter ; et faemina ter- 

 decies in die compi-essa, si masrevocet, denuo ac- 

 currit. Unde jEgyptiis et Venus dicltur, et soH 

 dicatur. Commiscentur aliquando cum accipetre, 

 sed ovis incubare non dignantur ; sed et marem 

 cum lupa aliquando coire scriptores Africani refe- 

 runt." 



Charlevoix says that his people threw down, 

 near OswegOj an eagles' nest which was compo- 



