SEA EAGLE. 
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A. few miles from tliis, is another eagle’s nest, built 
“O on a j)ine tree, which, from the information I’cceived 
tile proprietor of the woods, had been long the 
.. ^'ideuce of tliis family of eagles. The tree on which 
® nest was originally built, had been, for time immc- 
, neial, or at least ever since he remembered, inhabited 
these eagles. Some of his sons cut down this tree 
^ 1 * lH'Ociirc the young, which were two in nuiuber ; and 
e,® t'aglcs, soon after, coranienced building another nest, 
I the very next adjoining tree, thus exhibiting a very 
L 1‘®nhir attachment to the spot. The eagles, he says, 
it a kind of home and lodgimj place, in all seasons, 
ns man asserts, that the gray, or sea eagles, are the 
Jj.nng of the bald eagle, and that they are several years 
before they begin to breed. Tt does not drive its 
snuiig osprey, or fish-hawk, but 
‘i^niues to feed them long after they le.ave it. 
f be specimen from which this description was taken 
tg’^'n'Ured three feet in length and upwards ot seven 
th^r nxti'nf- Tbe bill n as formed cxaiitly like 
Cer bald eagle, but of a dusky broun colour; 
Oaio bigs, bright yelloM' ; the latter, as in the bald 
leathered a little below the knee; irides, a bright 
eoloiir; bead above, neck and back, streaked with 
wT. bi’o wn, deep brown, and white, the plumage being 
tipt and centered with brown ; scaimlars, brown ; 
ying-coverts, very pale, intennixeil with n hite ; 
black, their shafts bromiish white ; rump, 
thi* bi'ownish nhite ; tail, rounded, somewhat longer 
jr n the wing's, when shut, brown on the exterior vanes, 
tin- ones irhite, sprinkled with dirty brown ; 
breast, and bell)-, white, dashed and streaked 
h,,. * 'bfferent tints of broivn and pale yellow ; veut, 
litrr"’ lipt with white ; femorals, d,ark brown, tipt with 
the auriculars, brown, forming a bar from below 
anj backwards ; plumage of the neck, long, narrow, 
^ , Pointed, as is usual with eagles, and of a brownish 
’pL*’’ ^'Pl with white. 
nio-l f ooitlc is said, by various authors, to hunt at 
o as Well as during the day, and that, besides lish. 
