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WHITE-HEADED, OR BALD EAGLE. 
and wlio has, consequently, many opportunities of observing 
the habits of these birds, has favoured me with a number of 
interesting particulars on this subject; for which I beg leave 
thus publicly to return my grateful acknowledgment. 
“ The Bald Eagles,” says this gentleman, “ remain on this 
island during the whole winter. They can be most easily 
discovered on evenings by their loud snoring while asleep on 
high oak trees ; and, when awake, their hearing seems to be 
nearly as good as their sight. I think I mentioned to you, 
that I had myself seen one flying with a lamb ten days old, 
and which it dropped on the ground from about ten or twelve 
feet high. The struggling of the lamb, more than its weight, 
prevented its carrying it away. My running, hallooing, and 
being very near, might prevent its completing its design. It 
had broke the back in the act of seizing it ; and I was under 
the necessity of killing it outright to prevent its misery. The 
lamb’s dam seemed astonished to see its innocent offspring 
borne off into the air by a bird. 
cc I was lately told,” continues Mr Gardiner, “ by a man 
of truth, that he saw an Eagle rob a Elawk of its fish, and the 
Hawk seemed so enraged as to fly down at the Eagle, while 
the Eagle very deliberately, in the air, threw himself partly 
over on his back, and, while he grasped with one foot the fish, 
extended the other to threaten or seize the Hawk. I have 
known several Hawks unite to attack the Eagle ; but never 
knew a single one to do it. The Eagle seems to regard the 
Hawks as the Hawks do the King Birds — only as teasing, 
troublesome fellows.” 
From the same intelligent and obliging friend, I lately 
received a well preserved skin of the Bald Eagle, which, from 
its appearance, and the note that accompanied it, seems to 
have belonged to a very formidable individual. tc It was 
shot,” says Mr Gardiner, “ last winter, on this island, and 
weighed thirteen pounds ; measured three feet in length, and 
seven from tip to tip of the expanded wings ; was extremely 
fierce looking ; though wounded, would turn his back to no 
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