1^ EAGLEi. 



An intelligent man in whose veracity I liavc 

 confidence, says, that the bald eagle is entireh 

 distinct from the grey — that he cannot be mista- 

 ken in iii s opinion, for that lie has seen the male 

 of each species in connexion with his appropriate 

 female. 



Lawson, in his history of Carolina, says thaf 

 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 auratus 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 by 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- 

 peliatur. Coeunt vero frequenter ; et fremina ter- 

 decies in die compressa, si masrevocet, denuo ac- 

 currit. Unde JEgyptiis et Venus dicitur, et soli 

 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 Oswego, an eagles' nest which was compo- 



