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one of these eagles, which wjis feastiuj; on a large 

 j^ander, which he liad just killed; but as tlie uian sold 

 the eagle, a fine male, for three dollars he lost nothing 

 by the death of his goose. When other food is scarce 

 it feeds c-n oflfal and carrion Mice many other species 

 of the birds of prey are wont to do when deep snows 

 cover the ground. When there is a paucity of wild 

 game, its natural food, this powerful bird, it is as- 

 serted, often becomes very troublesome and frequently 

 attacks the young of domestic animals, such as lambs, 

 calves and i)igs. 



EAGLES DESTROYED MANY LAMBS. 



To illustrate the damage which eagles sometimes do 

 on sheep ranches, Dr. Fisher publishes the following 

 letter to Col. Alexander Macbeth, of (Teorgetown, S. 

 (,'., which fully explains how destructive eagles may 

 occasionally become. This letter, as Dr. Fisher ob 

 serves, "may refer in part to the Bald Eagle": 



Rbems, Georgetown County, S. C, May 30, issO. 

 Dear Sir: — Yours 22cl instant at hand, and in reply will say 

 that the eagles are more destructive to the sheep-growing 

 industry in this section than dogs. On one ranch this sprinj; 

 one shepherd alone killed over forty himself, principally by 

 using strj'chnine. They were worse than we ever knew oi 

 before. We lost fully 400 or 500 lambs, as they devour them 

 as rast as they drop from the old sheep. * * * We 

 frequently see during eagle or lambing season fifteen to 

 twenty eagles in a covey (or bunch), which shows at a glance 

 that they arc very destructive. We have also a few wild- 

 cats that devour the young sheep, but can manage them better 

 than eagles. 



Yours very truly, 



T. RHEM AND RONS. 



ADTTLT DEER ATTACKED. 



Some years ago I saw the remains of a Golden Eagle 

 hanging, with some pelts, on a hunter's cabin in the 

 wilds of Clinton county, Pa., and on making inquiry, 

 learned that the bird had been shot in the act of at- 



