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REPTILES AND BIRDS. 



it but little adapted to their purpose. Thus they rather unceremo- 

 niously class the Eagle among the ignoble birds. 



Fist 260. — Golden Ea^'es. 



The Tartars, however, are in the habit of using an Eagle indi- 

 genous to Central Asia to assist in taking the hare, tox, antelope, and 



