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A DESCRIPTION OF 
ing twenty-eight inches in length ; and in young birds 
the tail feathers are brown. 
THE WHITE-HEADED, OR BALD EAGLE. 
(Haliaetus leucocephalus.) 
THIS bird is about three feet long, and seven feet broad 
from tip to tip of the wings. The bill resembles that of 
the golden eagle, and from the chin hang some small 
hairy feathers like a beard. As it is found alike in regions 
of excessive cold and in the torrid zone, it is provided 
for enduring rapid changes of temperament, and its whole 
body is clothed under the feathers with a kind of down, 
white and soft like that of the swan. This bird builds its 
nest on some romantic cliff by the sea-shore, or on the 
bank of some river or lake, and feeds almost entirely 
upon fish. 
It is generally regarded by the Anglo-Americans with 
