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2. Jreland: and fometimes they are 
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46 «THE NATURAL HISTORY 
ones; fometimes an Eagle ul a cae tid 
drink its blood; but they never fly together in’ 
« flocks, as the NT altgres do; for ony two hag 
. live in the fame place. | 
They live a long time, fometimes more a 
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 he lait io 
could not feed itfelf, | tO ar has d's « 
lfit die of ‘hunger, w eth very.6 old, La pt | ag 
ele 
siete eating. oe (hy 
<The Emperor of Germany had one at Vic. = 
and the keeper forgot to give it. /any food for 
twenty-one days; yet it did not die, — — : 
There are many different kinds of E: bles,” 
One kind is call ed the Golden = when 
~ thefe Eagles grow old, the feathers of their heads, 

_ which were brown, turn grey. 
They breed in high cliffs in the 



untains of _ 
narvonfhire, in Wales, and on the 
Snowden which is in Wales. 
7 There were two Eagles that built their neft 
near 2 poot man’s houfe j in Treland ; the man had- 
a large family of children; and every day when, — 
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