BIRDS. 
I. RAPTORES. Diurnal Birds of Prey . 
THE GOLDEN EAGLE. (Aquila chrysoetos.) 
But who the various nations can declare, 
That plough with busy wing the peopled air ? 
These cleave the crumbling bark for insect food, 
Those dip the crooked beak in kindred blood : 
Some haunt the rushy moor, the lonely woods ; 
Some bathe their silver plumage in the floods ; 
Some fly to man, his household gods implore, 
And gather round his hospitable door, 
Wait the known call, and find protection there 
From all the lesser tyrants of the air. 
The tawny Eagle seats his callow brood 
High on the cliff, and feasts his young with blood. 
BARBAULD. 
THE Golden Eagle is the largest and the most powerful of 
all those birds that have received the name of Eagle. It 
