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more than a variety ; but leaving this point to be settled by syste- 

 matists, who delight in such things, I shall here enrich my pages with 

 the admirable description given by Wilson of the manners of the White 

 Headed Eagle, which is, in my estimation, worth whole volumes of nib- 

 bling criticisms about genera, species, and types, or the rubbish usually 

 entitled monography. The cut, reduced from Wilson's splendid work, 

 is subjoined. 



White Headed Eagle. 



" The celebrated cataract of Niagara," says Wilson, " is a noted place 

 of resort for those birds, as well on account of the fish procured there, 

 as for the numerous carcases of squirrels, deer, bears, and various other 

 animals, that in their attempts to cross the river above the falls have 

 been dragged into the current, and precipitated down that tremendous 

 gulf, where, among the rocks that bound the rapids below, they furnish 



