RI^TG-TAILED EAGLE. 
and strong, and covered with yellowish scales; 
and the claws, or talons, whicii are black, and 
extremely powerful, bend almost into semi^ 
circular figures, and terminate in very sharp 
points. 
In Ellis's account of the White -Tailed 
Eagle of Hudson's Bay, it is easy to recog- 
nize the Ring-Tailed Eagle. 
It was probably this species of Eagle, which 
is frequently seen in Ireland, of which Gold- 
smith relates, that a man having swam over to 
one of the beautiful little islands on the cele- 
brated Lake of Killarney, for the purpose of 
plundering an Eagles nest, and returning with 
the two Eaglets tied to a string, was attacked 
while in the water by the parent birds — who 
had, unfortunately for him, perceived both 
their loss and the plunderer — and in a few mi- 
nutes compleatly dispatched with their beaks> 
wings, and talons. 
A more fortunate peasant, in Scotland, 
where the Eagle, of dliterent species, is still 
more frequently found than in Ireland, as 
Goldsmith 
