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NATURAL HISTORY. 
Nor is the bald eagle, which is an inhabitant of North 
Carolina, less remarkable for habits peculiar to itself. 
These birds fly very heavily ; so that they cannot overtake 
their prey, like others of the same denomination. To remedy 
this, they often attend the osprey, which they attack as soon 
as it has seized a fish ; the osprey, therefore, being glad to 
escape by dropping the fish, with astonishing dexterity this 
bird seizes the unmerited prey, before it reaches the water. 
These eagles also generally attend upon lowlers in the 
winter; and when any birds are wounded, they are sure 
to be seized by the eagle, though they may fly from the 
fowler. This bird will often steal young pigs, and carry 
them alive to the nest, which is composed of twigs, sticks, 
and rubbish : it is large enough to fill the body of a cart ; 
and is commonly full of bones half eaten, and putrid flesh, 
the stench of which is intolerable. 
The distinctive marks of each species are as follow. 
The golden eagle : of a tawny, iron colour ; the head 
and neck of a reddish iron ; the tail feathers of a dirty 
white, marked with cross bands of tawny iron ; the le<*s 
covered with tawny iron feathers. 
The common eagle : of a brown colour ; the head and 
upper part of the neck inclining to red ; the tail feathers 
white, blackening at the ends ; the outer ones, on each side, 
of an ash colour, the legs covered with feathers of a reddish 
brown. This eagle was called by the Greeks the hare-killer , 
as, though that animal is a common prey to all eagles, it is 
the usual and particular object of pursuit with this species. 
The bald 'eagle : brown : the head, neck, and tail feathers 
white; the feathers of the upper part of the leg brown. Its 
length is three feet three inches. Inhabits both Europe 
and America. 
The while eagle : the whole white. But probably all 
white eagles are only varieties. 
The rough footed eagle : of a dirty brown : spotted 
under the wings, and on the legs with white : the feathers 
of the tail white at the beginning and the point ; the leg- 
feathers dirty brown, spotted with white. This eagle is 
very small, being not more than two feet and a half in 
length. Jt is remarkable for its plaintive cry. 
The while-tailed eagle. : dirty brown : head white : the 
stems of the feathers black ; the rump inclining to black ; 
the tail-feathers, the first half black, the end half white: 
legs naked. 
The erne : a dirty iron colour above, an iron mixed with 
black below ; the head and neck ash, mixed with chcsnut ; 
