160 LAMMER-GEYER EAGLE. 
feared, it would be from the Harpy Eagle, 
and not from the Condor. Vultures, as we 
have already said, do not desire live prey; 
and it is Eagles alone which take away 
Lambs, and sometimes seize upon children. 
A Lammer-geyer Eagle seized upon a child, 
not very long since, in Switzerland; and 
there is now, or lately was, in the Isle of 
Arran, upon the coast of Galway, in Ireland, 
a solitary Sheep, which is a witness to the 
seizure of a Lamb by an Eagle. The breed 
of Sheep upon the Isle of Arran is very smail 
and round; but an Eagle, having seized a 
Lamb upon the Coast of Galway, and carried 
it in his talons to the Isle of Arran, he was 
assailed by the islanders, while thus heavily 
laden ; and, to make his escape, relinquished 
his prey. The long-legged Lamb was suf- 
fered to grow up among the small round - 
Sheep of the island, and has lived a foreigner 
upon the soil to which he was transported 
by the Eagle. 
While, upon the one hand, the histories 
of the Great Vulture, and Great Eagle, of 
South America, appear to be still mixed, 
that of the Great Vulture or Vultures alone 
