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Circus Fludsontcus.— Vreillot. 
Marsh Hawk. 
This is the most common of all hawks in every 
part of the country. I have found it breeding on 
the salt meadows of New Jersey, the nest made 
of grass and sea-weed, and built on the ground 
at the side of a lot of bushes. I have also 
found it breeding very abundant on the prairies 
of Iowa, its nest being generally at the side of 
some bushes. 
Aquila Canadensts.— Cassin. 
Golden Eagle; Ring-tailed Eagle. 
This is a beautiful bird in full plumage, but I 
have never met with many with that plumage. 
Those that I have seen are mostly young birds 
in Fall plumage. I have found them in New 
Jersey and as far west as the Mississippi River, 
but I have never found the nest. I have killed 
it near the farm-yard while it was watching 
chickens, on which it feeds. 
Flahiaetus Leucocephalus —Savigny. 
Bald Eagle. 
The Bald Eagle is very plenty along the coast 
of Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey. It feeds 
on ducks and fish. Ihave seen this bird sit on 
the meadows and watch the fish-hawk catch a 
fish, when he would pursue the hawk and make 
him drop his food, and before the fish could reach 
the water the eagle would catch it and make for 
