SEA EAGLE, 
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Reneral, too wise, or too proud, to le.ai-n from their 
‘^feriors, the fowls of the air and beasts of the field. 
5. FALCO OSSIFEAGUS, WII.SON.* SEA EAGLE. 
"’ilsox, 
I’LATE LV. FIG. II EDINBL'KGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
Ting cao'le inhabits the same eountries, frequents the 
situations, and lives on the same kind of food, as 
I'ald eagle, with whom it is often seen in company. 
0 ’‘''■■^ciublcs this last so much iu figure, size, form of 
liill, legs, and claws, and is so often seen associating 
it, both along the Atlantic coast and in the vicinity 
l,j ?'ii' lakes and large rivers, that I have strong sus- 
1 ^"s, notuith.standing ancient and very respectalde 
oJ^Ofities to the contrary, of its being the same species, 
Z in a different stage of colour. 
1 , A'^it several years elapse before the young of the 
an? receive the white head, neck, and tail; 
Sh tke intermediate period, their plumage 
ff ’*'*8iy resemide.s that of the sea eagle, 1 am satisfied 
bv*'' ®"''i observation on three several birds, kept 
tjj Py^^sons of Philadcljihia. One of these, belonging to 
^ ' late Mr Enslen, collector of natural subjects for the 
tie Austria, was confidently believed by him to 
tl '® black, or sea eagle, until the fourth year, when 
Iff .Ptuniiige oil the head, tail, and tail-coverts, began 
f, '‘“■'itly to become white; the bill also exchanged 
thi 1 '^y tiue for that of yellow ; and, before its death, 
pg^ird, which I frequently examined, assumed the 
'tect dress of the full-plumaged bald eagle. Another 
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'.This 
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is the young of thefulco hncoceplialus, or vvliite-headed 
"’nicl.t'"* ^*“1 yoang of the falco oHiicilla, or cinereous eagle, 
IS the sea eagle of Britain. — Editor, 
