THE LIVING WORLD. 
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Bruce in southern Africa, lost a kid which was - being boiled for supper, by an 
eagle which swooped down upon it and carried it safely away. 
The eagle was the emblem 
of “all-seeing Jove” and no 
member of the animal world 
could so fitly symbolize a keen¬ 
ness of sight which allowed 
nothing to escape it. Again, 
the high altitudes at which 
the eagle flies, and the easy 
sweep of his magnificent wings, 
together with the suddenness 
with which he appears in the 
lower realm of earth, all unite 
to increase the excellence of 
the symbolism. The Roman 
armies bore insignia in which 
the eagle had great part, for 
he typified mastery, fearless 
courage, resistless might, seem¬ 
ing omnipresence. So, too, when 
Jove would please himself with 
the possession of the beautiful 
boy Ganymede, he employed the 
eagle as his minister; and poet and artist have made familiar to us the soaring 
eagle and the surprised but fearless child sailing away into the blue empyrean. 
As has been said the eagle has 
more than once been known 
to seize and bear away not 
merely infants, but children as 
large as the one in our illus¬ 
tration, for whose rescue the 
maddened father is represented 
struggling so valiantly. 
The Black Vulture, or 
Carrion Crow (Catharista 
atrata ), is notable for its de¬ 
struction of the eggs of the 
alligator. Its sight is keen, and 
its appetite insatiable, but still 
in accordance with the won¬ 
derful laws prescribed for the 
natural world, it does not ren¬ 
der extinct the alligator species, 
but simply prevents it from 
i. cathartes urubu. 2. king of the vui/iuREs. multiplying too rapidly and 
thus occupying the earth. 
The King Vulture, or White Crow (Sarcorhampus papa), is specially 
beautiful in its coloration. Cream white is the prevailing tint, but the lemon 
