100 CURIOUS HOMES AND THEIR TENANTS. 



carry away for his breakfast. As he sees this the 

 eagle screams with joy, and, bending his neck and 

 spreading his broad wings, he instantly gives chase to 

 the feathered fisherman. Each tries to mount above 

 the other, but the eagle, having no heavy fish to carry 

 and possessing more powerful wings, is the victor. 

 Just as he is about to reach the fishhawk, that poor 

 bird with a scream of despair and anger drops the 

 fish he carried in his beak. The eagle, poising him- 

 self for a more certain aim, descends like lightning 

 upon it, catches it before it reaches the water, and 

 carries it silently away to its nestlings in the woods." 

 This, put in more simple language, is what Wilson, 

 a great American naturalist, tells of the way in which 

 the parent eagle provides food for his young ones. 



One of the most wonderful things about eagles 

 is their power of vision. Their eyes are much better 

 and stronger than ours, and they bear not only to look 

 upon the sun, but they can see much more distinctly 

 than we can. Even baby eagles can see their parents 

 at immense distances coming to feed them, as they 

 plainly show by their cries, before a human eye can 

 possibly make them out in the clearest light. 



If an eagle is taken from the nest of the parent 

 bird and brought up by hand it becomes very tame, 

 and makes an interesting pet, though not exactly of 

 the kind one would care to have about the house. 



