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culty eighty or a hundred paces. An Eagle, 
, apparently of this species, perceiving the 
laborious flight of the grous, descended with 
rapid wing from the adjacent lofty cliffs, 
before their guns were reloaded, and in de- 
fiance of the shouts made to deter him, car- 
ried off his prey. 
Not having it in our power to refer to the 
original work, we copy the following anec- 
dote from Dr. Shaw's General Zoology, 
which he extracted from the Life of the 
celebrated Thuanus or De Thou, viz. that 
" when himself and Monsieur Schomberg 
were passing through a part of France, on 
an embassy from Henry the Third to the 
King of Navarre, they were entertained for 
several days, together with their suite, at 
Mande, the seat of the Bishop and Count of 
Gevaudan. At the first repast it was ob- 
served, with some surprise, that all the wild 
fowl or game brought to table wanted either 
a head, a wing, a leg, or some other part, 
which occasioned their host pleasantly to 
apologize for the voracity of his caterer, who 
always took the liberty of first tasting what 
he procured, before it was brought to table. 
