■22B CLASS AYES. 



On Btmoat soda's skove. wkaaekadj- ncr 

 Res%n tfe settiii^ SUB to JmSauwaMs, 



The rojal ea^ dnvs kb TigunMs jaan;, 

 StrDn^-{>aaaced, ajod ankiit yntk paternal fire. 

 Now fit to laise a kmrdora of Aexr owti. 

 He drires tknc from his fort. Ae tow-'rins- seat. 

 For ascs, of kis ^^ire : viuck, ia peace, 

 UmtaoBcd ke koUs, vk3e aaaj a league to sea 

 He WBgs Us coarse, and prers in fstant isles. 



The great eagle, thoogh a Tery lasciTioos bird, lives for 

 above a century. Kleia mentions one which lived at Vienna 

 one hundred and foor years in a state of captivity . Some writers 

 ha.Te pretended that the death of this bird is accelerated by the 

 great increasing curvanire of the beak, which prevents him from 

 taking his food any longer. But this assertion seems founded 

 on no great degree of probability. 



The great eagle is tamed with much difficulty : but he can 

 be fed on all kinds of flesh, even on that of other eagles. He 

 win also, in default of other food, eat serpents, lizards, and even 

 bread, according to Bufibn. SpaUanzani, however, declares 

 that the eagje has a great antipathy to bread, which he will not 

 touch even after a long tasL though he can digest it well enough 

 if he b forced to swallow it. 



In proportion as this eagle grows older, the colour of his 

 plumage becomes lighter : whitish tints become visible, and 

 eren some places turn entirely white. These changes are like- 

 wise produced by diseases, hunger, and long captivity. 



The Common EagU, whose species is more numerous than 

 the foregoing, is found aU over Europe and North America. It 

 b very conmion in the hi^ mountains of France. Switzerland, 

 Germany, Poland, and Scotland, and descends into the plains in 

 winter. It has been seen in Barbary, and it would appear that 

 it also exists in Arabia and Persia. It has been found in 

 Loaiaana, the Fk)ridas, Carohna, and at Hudson's Bay. During 

 summer it never quits the mountains, but when it descends in 

 winter the forests become its asvlum during the rigour of that 



