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ful little beauties they are, with their long bills and 

 slender necks. They walk in a very airy manner, and 

 almost noiselessly move from one place to another, 

 searching for food as they go, which consists of aquatic 

 insects and worms. Their nests are usually placed un- 

 der a projecting bank of a stream or a mossy knoll. 

 It is a neat structure composed of moss, grass and 

 leaves. Four or five white eggs, spotted with brown 

 on the larger end. 



BALD EAGLE. 



{Haliaeetus Leucocephalus.) 

 Although we do not see this large bird on our daily 

 rambles, yet he occasionally makes his appearance in 

 our section of country, either by a driving wind or 

 by wandering from his native shores of lakes 

 and rivers. When spied this far from home he is al- 

 most universally attacked by the people, either to get 

 rid of his presence, or to obtain his kingly form for the 

 cabinet. When nicely stuffed and mounted this bird 

 has a fine appearance, as he also has in life, when 

 wheeling and circling in majestic evolutions, or poising 

 himself for a moment he descends like an arrow from 

 his dizzy heights in and among the wild crags of 

 mountainous regions or river shores. This bird's head 

 is covered with white feathers, giving him his charac- 

 teristic name. He feeds upon hares, young lambs and 

 other small animals, which he marks out and secures 

 with deadly accuracy; fish constitute a part of his diet, 

 but this delicacy is never obtained by honesty, but is 

 robbed from the Osprey or Fish Hawk, which dives for 

 them. This bird scarcely ever attempts to resist the 



