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The Golden Eagle is one of the finest birds of the family to 
which it belongs, and is spread over a large portion of the world 
inhabiting various parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and America. 
I he color of the bird is a blackish brown, with rich golden-red 
feathers around the head and neck. Eagles are all monogamous, 
restricting themselves to a single mate throughout their lives. 
The Bald Eagle or white-headed Sea Eagle is the adopted Emb¬ 
lem of the United States of America. Wilson speaks of it : 
“Formed by nature for braving the severest cold, feeding 
equally on the produce of the sea and of the land; possessing pow- 
ers of flight, capable of outstripping even the tempests themselves; 
unawed by everything but man : and, from the eternal heights to 
which he soars, looking abroad at one glance, on an immeasurable 
expanse of forests, fields, lakes, and ocean deep below him, he ap¬ 
pears indifferent to the little localities of change of the season, as 
in a few minutes he can pass from summer to winter, from the 
Virginia Eagle or great horned Owl (Bubo Virginianus). 
lower to the higher regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal 
cold, and thence descend at will to the torrid or arctic regions of the 
earth.” 
The Bateleur Eagle (Helotarsus ecaudatus ), an African bird with 
brilliant colored legs and cere; a plumage showing an alternation 
of chestnut, grey and black, differs widely from his relatives even 
if the excessive shortness of his tail did not give it the appearance 
of being absolutely without that important member. 
On the other (northern) side of the Eagle house are exhibited : 
The Virginia Eagle or horned Owl (Bubo Virginianus ), a native 
of North America remarkable for two tufts of feathers projecting 
from his head like ears. 
The Barred Owl (Syrnium nebulosum ) smaller in size than either 
the snowy or great horned Owl, lives principally on mice and frogs, 
