mi-: owls. 





Social. The bald-headed eagle (Haliaetus lei 

 dark-brown when young, and before sheddh outhful 



plum than the white-headed adult, 



inaccessible rocky points; is the sworn enemj of I 

 hawk, and, like it, fond <>f fish, often w s; its living 



food from the talons of the hawk. This the em- 



blem of our country. The osprey or fish-hawk (Pandion 

 haliaetus) is two-thirds of ;i metre 1< » 1 1 lt. nests in tall i 



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and is migratory. Among the hawks, the m - table are 

 falcons or hunting hawks, used during the Middle 

 A jes in hunting the hare i in nature they cha 

 prey and kill it immediately, devouring it. and rejecting 

 the bones and hair of the partly digested food in a 

 from the mouth. 



The owl is a bird of the ■-. ow- 



ing to its Boft plumage, the feathers havii a r-shaft. 



It has large eyes and a hooked . _ _ the bird of Mi- 



