Masi GOUDDEN:) EAGLE, 
dered with tawny ; the hind part of the head in par- 
ticular is of a bright ruft-color. 
The whole body, above as well as beneath, is of 
a dark brown; and the feathers on the back are 
finely clouded with a deeper fhade of the fame: the 
wings, when clofed, reach to the end of the tail: 
the quil feathers are of a chocolate color, the fhafts 
white: the tail is of a deep brown, irregularly bar- 
red and blotched with an obfcure ath color, and 
ufually white at the roots of the feathers: the legs 
are yellow, fhort, and very ftrong, being three in- 
ches in circumference, and are Cashew to the 
very feet: the toes are covered with large {cales, 
and armed with moft formidable claws, the mid- 
dle of which are two inches long. 
Eagles in general are very deftructive to fawns, 
lambs, kids, and all kind of game; particularly in 
the breeding feafon, when they bring a vaft quan- 
tity of prey to their young. Srmith, in his hiftory 
of Kerry, relates that a poor man in that county got 
a comfortable fubfiftence for his family, during a 
fummer of famine, out of an eagle’s neft, by rob- 
bing the eaglets of the food the old ones brought, 
whofe attendance he protracted beyond the natural 
time, by clipping the wings and retarding the flight 
of the former. It is very unfafe to leave infants 
in places where eagles frequent; there being in- 
ftances in Scotland* of two being Sik off by them, 
but fortunately, 
* Martin's bift. Weft. Iles, 299. Sib, bift, Scat. 14. 
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