
46 . THE NATURAL HISTORY 
ones; fometimes an Eagle will kill a calf and 
Brinks its blood; but they never fly together in 
flocks, as the Nultsines do; for ee two igen 
live in the fame place. 
They live a long time, fometimes more than 
an hundred years: and fome have imagined that 
they at laft die of hunger; for when the Eagle is 
very old, its upper mandible (or the upper bill) 
grows fo crooked, that fome have thought it 
could not feed itfelf. 
If it die of hunger, when very old, (which per- 
haps may be a miftake,) it can live. a long time 
without eating. 
The Emperor of Germany had one at Vienna, 
and the keeper forgot to give it any food for 
twenty-one days; yet it did not die. 
_ There are many different kinds of Eagles. 
One kind is called the Golden Eagle: when 
thefe Eagles grow old, the feathers of their heads, 
which were brown, turn grey. 
They breed in high cliffs in the mountains of 
Areland ; and fometimes they are found in Caer- 
‘narvonhhire, in Wales, and on the mountain of 
Snowden which is in Wales. 
There were two Eagles that built their neft 
near a poor man’s houfe in Ireland; the man had 
a large family of children; and every day when 
the 
