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Aaulla chrysaetos . 
Lake IJmbagog, Maine. 
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1897. The "Ring-tailed" Eagle after its exploit with the Ducks 
was harassed incessantly for several minutes by an Osprey 
which attacked it precisely as a Kingbird does a Crow keeping 
over and darting down at it from above. Every time the Os¬ 
prey approached it within less than six or eight feet the Ea¬ 
gle would turn, back downwards and thrust up both its feet 
with all the talons extended evidently trying to grasp it. 
This evolution, which I witnessed at least half-a-dozen times 
was performed so quickly that it was difficult to follow with 
the eye b\it for a fraction of a second the upstretched legs 
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and wide-spread talons were distinctly outlined against the 
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sky. Probably the bird turned over and back again in half a 
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second or less. It did this without apparent exertion and 
without perceptibly falling. Both birds at the time -were over 
the middle of the pond at a height of perhaps 400 feet and 
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some 'two hundred yards from my post of observation. 
Everything that I have seen to-day confirms my previous 
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impression that the Golden-Eagle is in every ’way a more spir- 
; ited, energetic and dashing bird than the Bald-headed Eagle. 
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It evidently spends much more of its time on the wing, hunts 
more over woods and mountain tops and covers more ground. Its 
flight is firmer, swifter and more buoyant and graceful, the 
wings are held flatter and do not bend up at the tip or "lop" 
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at the elbow. I also think that it habitually soars more and 
