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called forth my attention was the multitude of ducks, of different species, 
accompanied by vast flocks of swans, which from time to time would pass 
us. My patroon, a Canadjan, had been engaged many years in the fur trade ; 
he was a man of much intelligence, who, perceiving that birds had engaged 
my curiosity, seemed only anxious to find some new object to divert me. 
The sea eagle flew over us. ‘How fortunate! he exclaimed ; ‘ this is what 
I could have wished. Look, Sir' the great sea eagle, and the on‘y one I 
have seen since I left the lakes.’ I was instantly on my feet, and, havmg 
observed it attentively, concluded, as I lost it in the distance, that it was 4 

species quite new tome. My patroon assured me that such biras were 
indeed rare; that they sometimes followed the hunters, to feed on the entrails 
of animals they had killed, when the lakes were closed by the ice, but, when 
open, they would dive in the daytime after fish, and snatch them up in the 
manner of the fishing hawk; that they roosted generally on the shelves of 
the rocks, where they built their nests, of which he had discovered several 
by the quantity of white exuviz scattered below. His account will be found 
- to accord with the observations which I had afterwards an opportunity of 
making myself. Being convinced that the bird was unknown to naturalists, 
I felt particularly anxious to learn its habits, and in what particulars it 
