Book II. 
INHABITANTS OF THE AIE. 
§ I. Raptores. Diurnal Birds of Prey. 
THE GOLDEN EAGLE. (Aquila chrysaetos.) 
" 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 one of the largest and most power- 
ful of all those birds that have received the name of 
Eagle. It weighs above twelve pounds. Its length, 
from the point of the beak to the end of the tail, is 
