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VERTEBRATES. 



the Bearded Eagle, because there is suspended beneath the throat 

 a kind of beard composed of very narrow feathers, like hairs. The 

 legs are covered with feathers even to the toes, which are yellow ; 

 the claws are black ; above, the body is blackish brown ; and 

 beneath, the parts are white, with a tinge of brown. 



The bearded eagles are inhabitants of the highest, the most 

 formidable and awfully sublime parts of the great chain of snow- 



Bearded Eagle. 



ilad Alps that separates Switzerland from Italy. Sometimes they 

 are found of a size truly wonderful : one caught in the Canton of 

 Glarus measured, from the tip of its beak to the extremity of its 

 tail, nearly seven feet, and from the extremities of its extended 

 wings eight feet and a half Even some have been shot much 

 larger. This furnishes some idea of the remarkable duration of 

 their life. Their nests are usually placed in the clefts of rocks, 

 in situations too lofty and inaccessible ever to be reached by man. 

 The food of these formidable and magnificent birds consists of the 

 ehamois, white hares, marmots, kids, and more particularly lambs. 



