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they are the National Emblem, but because they do a great 
deal of good. They raise but one brood a season. The 
tallest tree with a nest in this section from which eggs 
have been taken was a pine tree in Princess Anne 
County, in 1913, the bottom of the nest being one 
hundred and ten feet up. This nest was ten feet high, 
seven feet across, and would, I judge, weigh nearly a ton. 
It had been oceupied for over twenty years, presumably 
by the same pair of birds, and, as we only secured a single 
incubated egg, judge they were very old birds. In the 
mountains they make their nests on the cliffs. 
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