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of other eagles, is exceedingly majestic and graceful, 
and answers to the fine description, 1 
* Sailing with supreme dominion, 
Through the azure depths of air.” 
The nest of the golden eagle has been found on 
the Hudson, but never, I believe, within the limits 
of our state. Perhaps it may be found hereafter on 
Graylock or some of our western mountains. They 
build, of course, where they can find abundance of 
their usual food, such as fawns, young racoons, rab- 
bits, and wild turkeys; but they are indifferent to 
climate, enduring the utmost severity of winter, and 
moving with ease and unconcern in the face of the 
most violent storms. The golden eagle would be 
the acknowledged head of its family, were. it not 
for the giant discovered by Audubon. The ring 
tailed eagle of Wilson is now well known to be the 
young of the present species. 
The Wasuineton Eacenr, Falco Washingtonia- 
nus, was discovered by Audubon, and happily named 
by him in honor of the man, who is still the absolute 
sovereign of all hearts in this country, and will con- 
tinue to rule over it, for ages, by his memory and 
example. It was known before our great ornitholo- : 
gist recognised it as a new species, and was supposed 
to be one of the familiar kinds ; but from the circum- 
stance of its building on a cliff, and procuring its 
food by diving instead of robbing the fish-hawk, it 
was obviously different from the brown eagle, as the 
bald eagle, in his immature state, is often called. 
It was not till two ` years after he first saw it, that 
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