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Aquila chrysactus canadensis. 
Maine (Lake Unibagog ). 
Heard the unmistakable 
woods on Cambridge jliver. 
cry of this Ragle in the 
Ryesson tells mo that a pair ox'’ Golden Ragles breed 
every season on the face oT a vertical cliff on Speckled 
Mountain iri Grafton Notch. Some tv/onty years a,go a 
party of young men lowered a comrade over the precipice 
vxith a long rope. Ho found the nest in a shallov/’ cave 
or den, and about it the remains of ducks, geese, lambs, 
etc. The young Ragles, hovxevor, had left it. 
A iTiile or two above the Notch I 'vas shown a fine 
Golden Ragle, nailed to the trunk of a pine by the road¬ 
side. ^ The history of its capture is as follows: A 
woman living in one of those v/eather beaten little farm¬ 
houses peculiar to New Ri-.gland, kept a large flock of 
geese '.vhich '/ere her pride; one Sunday afte-noon in 
August (1S79) the family being av/ay and a little girl 
about nine years old the oiily one at home, an Ragle sud¬ 
denly pounced upon one of the Geese. The 
cliild liearing 
club. 
himsolf 
bold- 
the outcry ran out and attacked the bird y/i th 
but instead of trying to escape he defended 
ly at the s.ame time clinging to his prize. The chind 
beeomin.a frightened at his fierce aspect, throe the club 
aside ar.d assailed him at a safer distance with stones, 
finally disabling him, \/heia her parerits returned and 
settled the conflict by Wringing his neck. This Ragle 
was Qvi'ler.tly a very old bird. He had positively no 
Y/'hite on liis tail. He is probably one of the pair that 
has nested for so many years on the cliff of Speckled 
Mountain. 
