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GOLDEN EAGLE. Chee. 
vidence denying a large increafe to rapacious birds*, 
becaufe they are noxious to mankind; but gracioufly 
beftowing an almoft boundlefs one on {uch as are 
of ufe tous. This kind of eagle fometimes mi- 
grates into Caernarvonfbire, and there are inftances, 
though rare, of their having bred in Snowdon hills ; 
from whence fome writers give that traét the name 
of Creigiau’r eryrau, or the eagle rocks ; ‘others that 
of Creigiaw’r eira, or the fnowy rocks; the latter 
feems the more natural epithet; it being more rea- 
fonable to imagine that thofe mountains, like Nipb- 
ates in Armenia, and Imaust in Tartary, derived 
their name from the circumftance of being cover- 
ed with fnow, which is fure to befal them near the 
half of every year, than from the accidental ap- 
pearance of a bird on them, once only in feveral 
years. © 
The golden eagle weighs about twelve pounds ; 
its length is three feet; the extent of its wings fe- 
yen feet four inches; the bill is three inches long, 
and of a deep blue color; the cere is yellow; the 
irides of a hazel color: the fight and fenfe of {mel- 
ling are very acute: her eyes bebold afar off {: the 
head and neck are cloathed with narrow fharp 
pointed feathers, and of a deep brown color, bor- 
a ~  f > U 7 - ia 
* Toy yauluvwyoy oaryotoxa maya. Arift. hift. an. 

4 Imaus incolarum lingua nivofum fignificante. Phx, 
fe. 6. 6. 21. 
{ Fob 39, 27. Where the natural hiftory of the eagle is 
finely drawn up. 
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