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V'lr.lMK X'XVI 
NEW-YORK, MARCH, 1867. 
NEW SEMES—No, 242. 
T II I'A E A L I) E A G L T,—{ILaietas lucocepnalus.)—Drmcn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
birds—soaring in circles out of sight, without 
perceptibly moving its wings; closing its wings 
and dropping perpendicularly from hiimense 
heights, and witl^the sound of a rushing wind. 
The length of these birds is about 35 to 40 
inches, ancf the spread of the wings about seven 
feet. The plumage of the body and wings is 
brownisli black, that of the thickly feathered 
head and the tail being white, in adult birds only; 
the feet arc yellow, and the beak a paler yellow 
The Eald (.r wiiiul Ileadcul Eagle, is, without 
disiiute, fine Ilf the most sirilcingand beautiful 
of the eagdes, from his dark heavy plumage, white 
licad and tail. There is nothing particularly 
noble about the bird, and many have considered 
it unfortunate! that he was made tiic national em¬ 
blem. Bai i Kaub'S arc occasionally seen in all 
tiie States of th(! Union. In winter they arc fre- 
(jisently (piite common along tlic coast. Wchave 
'III Ill irroups along tlic Sound coast of 
I Connecticut, so tired as to be easily approached, 
j probably having been blown by some storm far 
out to sea, and having made the coast at that 
point. Tills eagle lives upon fish, birds, and 
such animals as it can catch and overpower. 
Often it lets the Fish Hawk catch the fish, and 
then pursues the hawk, thus impeded in its 
flight, forces it to let its prey fall, when, adroitly 
turning, the eagle roblier catches it in the air. 
In certain feats of flight, it surpasses all other 
