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BALD EAGLE. 
U?'** ^ii’d from wliich the forcooiiift description was 
of t”’ *’***^* Great Eg" Harbour, in the month 
jlj '^•'■Quary. It was in excellent order, and weighed 
(.j^*** oleven pounds. Dr Samuel B. Smith, of this 
obliired mo with a minute and careful dissection 
whoso co])ious and very interesting notes 
suit^i 1 shall extract such remarks as are 
^*d to the general reader. 
j'g Gie eagle you sent me for dissection was a beautiful 
bri • ■ " oJi^pansions of the gullet. The first 
iti composed of longitudinal bundles of fibre, 
l^J,''0*eh (as the bird is ravenous and without teeth) 
sol^* portions of unraasticated meats are sulfered to dis- 
f'efore they psiss to the low er or proper stomach, 
'eh is membranous. I did not receive the bird time 
^j^Ogh to ascertain whether any chilification was 
* 0 *“'' ' ■' juices from the vessels of this enlarge- 
C;‘«dbythej. 
^tstantly 
aU'i ^**0 (esophagus. I think it probable, that it 
J'O ha^ , 
1 a regurgitating, or vomiting power, as the bird 
sta — '*'^y swallows large (juantities of indigestible sub- 
aa J®®s. such as ((uills, hairs, &c. In this sac of the 
^ ^ouud the (juill feathers of the small w'hite guU ; 
- fish. This excited some surprise, until you made 
fiiat/*' file true stomach, the tail and some of the breast 
laj, '®rs of the same bird, and the dorsal vertebra; of a 
This excited some surprise, until you made 
ha,„?®'l'i®'>uted with the fact of its watching the fish 
thw robbing them of their prey. Thus we see, 
a|u,,'^^*"*t the whole empire of animal lift;, power is 
of always in a state of hostility to justice ; and 
oou,*^® lleity only (»m it truly be said, that^M.vfice is 
« ^®usurate with power ! 
and ^ lias the several auxiliaries to digestion 
Uj, '^^siniilation in common with man. The liver was 
yally large in your specimen. It secretes bile, 
’^lood ®’'‘''i“lates the intestines, prepares the chyle for 
deeui l>v this very secretion of bile, (as it is a 
obii,y. *'®spir"ing animal,) separates or removes some 
adiai'''?a® principles from the blood. (See Dr Hush’s 
*‘>ibj/, lecture on this important viscus in the human 
*''•) The intestines were also lai-ge, long, convolute. 
