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BALD EAGLE. 
In the History of Lewis and Clarkes Expedition, we find the 
following account of an Eagle’s nest, which must have added not 
a little to the picturesque effect of the magnificent scenery at the 
Falls of the Missouri : 
“Just below the upper pitch is a little island in the middle 
of the river, well covered with timber. Here on a cottonwood tree 
an Eagle had fixed its nest, and seemed the undisputed mistress 
of a spot, to contest whose dominion neither man nor beast would 
venture across the gulfs that surround it, and which is further se- 
cured by the mist rising from the falls.”* 
The Bald Eagle was observed by Lewis and Clark during 
their whole route to the Pacific Ocean. 
It may gratify some of our readers to be informed, that the 
opinion of Temminck coincides with ours respecting the identity 
of our Bald and Sea Eagles ; but he states that the Falco ossifragus 
of Gmelin, the Sea Eagle of Latham, is the young of the Falco al- 
bicilla, which, in its first year, so much resembles the yearling of 
the leucocephahis, that it is very difficult to distinguish them. 
^ Hist, of the Exped. vol. i, p. 264. 
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