Feet and Legs 375 
once clasped an object, never let go. It required two 
men and two pairs of the thickest buckskin gloves to 
obtain Fig. 295, and even then the foot could be held 
still for only a moment. As the photograph shows, the 
Fic. 294.—Foot of Snowy Owl. 
leg is feathered all the way down to the toes in this eagle, 
for some unexplained reason, while in almost all its rela- 
tives, as in the Bald Eagle, the legs are covered with 
scales. The feet and toes of the Harpy Eagle, Fig. 204, 
are probably the most terrible of their kind in the world: 
