BALD EAGLE. 
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jjj into a brilliant straw colour, with the white 
of the head. Such at least was the gradual 
tin chanire, witi\essed by myself, on a very 
min hronglit up by a jfentlenian, a friend of 
." ho, for a considerable time, believed it to be 
sur 'mimlly called the ffi’ay eagle, and was much 
at the gradual metamoqdiosis. This will 
®ftl*'*'* for the circumstance, so frequently observed, 
S>’ay and white-headed eagle being seen together, 
of , ing, in fact, the same species, in different stages 
according to their difference of age. 
dof. tiifl'ht of the bald eagle, when taken into eonsi- 
HjiIjI 'mi U'ith the ardour and energy of his character, is 
interesting. Sometimes the human eye can 
cy 'hsceru him, like a minute speck, moving in slow 
n, ■''^iores along the face of the heavens, as if recon- 
lie ^'."11 the earth at that immense distance. Sometimes 
hpi^hties along in a direct horizontal line, at a vast 
"ith expanded and unmoving uings, till he 
glijj.'f'hy di.sappears in the distant blue ether. Seen 
tjij ''’’I in easy circles over the high shores and moiin- 
lio- olifl's that ton er aliove the Hudson and Susque- 
addj; attracts the eye of the intelligent voyager, and 
Of interest to the sceueiy. At tlie great Cataract 
golf ■'‘'S'n'o, already mentioned, there ri.ses from the 
stijo " hioh the Falls of the Horse-Shoe descends, a 
he.,^'"'ous eoliimii of smoke, or spray, reaekiiig to the 
to and moving oft' in large black clouds, according 
and '® 'hrection of the wind, forming a very striking 
i-aill ’^"■i®stic appoaranco. The eagles are hero seen 
Colli ^ "hont, sometimes losing themselves in this thick 
SOoii*"*’ again reappearing in another place, with 
trill, and cleoaiice of motion, as renders the n hole 
‘y snhiiing 
High 0 Vt the ■watery uproar, silent seen, 
failing sedate in majesty serene, 
■^«'v midst the pillar’d spray suhliniely lost, 
•$od n<iw, emerging, down the Kiipid.s tost, 
J^hdes the balil eagle, gazing, calm and slow, 
^ all the horrors of the scene below ; 
nteut alone to sate himself with bhuid, 
roin the torn victims of the raging flood. 
