28o Reminiscences of 



stimulants, which he exposed at a favorable place, and 

 removed himself to a considerable distance where he 

 could observe the scene. This would have been a use- 

 less effort for the bald-headed or gray eagles, which are 

 not known to return to feed a second time upon a 

 carcass once fed upon, or when disturbed in feeding, 

 but the golden or black eagles will return, and are often 

 poisoned or trapped from returning. In this instance, 

 after some time had elapsed, the three eagles that had 

 occasioned so much destruction were seen to alight, 

 one after the other, at the poisoned meat, which was all 

 consumed by them. 



After this, and their circling about in the sky, one 

 was observed to fall to the ground, and was found dead, 

 while the others disappeared in the distance and were 

 not seen afterwards, and undoubtedly died from the 

 poison. 



While animals have a particularly keen sense of 

 smell, birds are much lacking in this respect, and would 

 seem often to be entirely without it, and the cunning 

 crow is easily deceived by whisk\--soaked com, and 

 becomes so senseless as to be caught by hand, and all 

 kinds of birds are easily poisoned by strychnined 

 grain. 



But birds make up for this deficiency by an ap- 

 parently abnormal keenness of sight, as witnessed 

 particularly in the buzzards, which, flying at a great 

 height — so high as to be invisible to human sight, — are 

 speedily attracted by an exposed dead animal, even 

 in a rock}^ field, where surrounding objects bear some 

 resemblance to the dead animal. 



The eagle and hawk are very expert on the wing, 

 and the hawk lives largely upon birds of quick motion, 



