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THE GREAT SEA-EAGLE...... THE GOLDEN EAGLE. 
HALIAETOS OSSIFRAGUS. Sav. AQUILA CHRYSAETOS. Sav. 
Havine in the preceding article terminated the series of 
Mammiferous Quadrupeds at present existing in the 
Tower Menagerie, we must next direct our attention to 
the illustration of the Birds, a Class which, although 
fully entitled to the second place in the arrangement of 
the Animal Kingdom, is separated by a wide and almost 
unoccupied interval from that which unquestionably 
claims the foremost rank. 
To commence then with the Eagles, which form a 
prominent group of the Rapacious Order, and are uni- 
versally regarded as the most majestic, as well as the 
most powerful, of birds. In common with the whole 
