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the vulture submit without a struggle to the exercise of 
that tyranny, which they know it would be in vain to resist. 
ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES. 
“We have ourselves,” says Wilson, “seen the Bald 
Eagle, while seated on the dead carcass of a horse, keep a 
whole flock of vultures at a respectful distance, until he had 
fully sated his own appetite and he adds another instance, 
in which many thousands of tree squirrels having been 
drowned, in one of their migrations, in attempting to pass 
the Ohio, and having furnished for some length of time a 
rich banquet to the vultures, the sudden appearance among 
them of the Bald Eagle at once put a stop to their festivi- 
ties, and drove them to a distance from their prey, of 
which the Eagle kept sole possession for several successive 
days. 
THE FALCON. ( Falco communis.') 
The Falcon is a predaceous bird, of which there are 
several species. The Gerfalcon is the largest, and it is 
found in the northern parts of Europe ; and, next to the 
eagle, it is the most formidable, the most active, and the 
most intrepid of all voracious birds, and is the dearest and 
most esteemed for falconry. The bill is crooked and yel- 
