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" Her endurance of hunger is as remarkable as 

 her power in the storm. In confinement she is said 

 to have lived five weeks without food ; and yet as she 

 was then taken with dead bait, to which she does 

 not resort except in extremity, she must have been 

 hungry when taken : so that, in her native freedom 

 and with the cold dry wind around her, which di- 

 minishes the waste of the animal system, she may 

 possibly be able to fast for a longer period ; — and 

 the one mentioned was killed and did not die of 

 hunger. But I must leave her to her haunts, 

 apologizing to the reader, that I am obliged to 

 confine my notice to a few desultory pages, which 

 is as much out of nature as cooping up the living 

 bird in a cage. In Nature, the Eagle requires a 

 mountain, and if ever it be my good fortune to 

 afford her a volume of description, she shall spread 

 her wings." — Mudie, Feath. Tribes. 



Synonyms of Young. — Chrysaetos cauda annulo 

 albo cincta, Ray, Syn. — Falco fulvus, Linn. Syst. 

 — Gmel. Linn. — Lath. Ind. Orn. — Falco niger, 

 Gmel. Linn. — Aquila fulva, Mey. Vog. Liv, mid 

 Estlil. — Aigle commun, Buff, PI. En I. — Black 

 Eagle, Penn. Brit. Zool. — Ringtail Eagle, Penn. 

 Br. Zool. — Will. Orn. — Lath. Syn. — ln.Supp. — 

 Bew. Hist. Br. Birds. — Low, Fauna Oread. — 

 Shaw, Gen. Zool. — Wils. Amer. Orn. — Id. Ed. 

 Jardine. 



Synonyms of Adult. — Aquila aurea, Will. Orn. 

 — Analyst, No. 11. — Mag. Nat. Hist., No. 50. — 

 Falso chrysaetos, Linn. Syst. — Gmel. Linn. — 

 Faun. *SWe.— Lath. Ind. Orn. — Muller, No. 59. 

 — Briss. Orn. — Aquila chrysaeta, Shaw, Gen. 

 Zool. — Flem. Brit. Anim. — Swains. Northern 

 Zool. — Gold Adler, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. — 

 Aigle Royal, Buff. PI. Enl. — Id. Grand Aigle. — 

 Aigle Royal, et Aigle Commun, Cuv. RegneAnim. 

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