BIRDS THAT PREY AND SOME THAT DO NOT 4 ?3 



ROUGH RIDER'S EAGLE PHOTOGRAPHED IN CAMP 



learned that the most relentless foe to all wild 

 creatures is the two-legged animal who carries a 

 gun. 



If we could carefully examine the wary old 

 bird's body, there is little doubt that we could find 

 many scars which would help us to understand the 

 very accurate knowledge Uncle Sam is known to 

 possess of the effective range of the murderous, 

 fire-belching thunder sticks his arch enemy uses on 

 all the wood folks. 



It is because this eagle knows these things that 

 he is alive today and sitting on the old chestnut 

 tree where he perched last year, and for an unre- 

 corded number of years previous to that date. 



