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Title: A history of British birds. By the Rev. F.O. Morris ..
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Morris, F. O. (Francis Orpen), 1810-1893
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
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ustly, is more than doubtful. The appearance, however, of this bird, is certainly verynoble and majestic, though not more so, perhaps, than that ofmany others of its family, and if his aspect is fine in theonly state in which we can have an opportunity of observinghim closely, how much more striking would it appear, if wecould, ourselves unseen, behold him in his state of nature,standing on the outermost projection of some overhangingprecipice of the mountain, and looking out, with his largeand piercingly lustrous eye into the far distance below, forsome quarry on which to stoop for his own food, or that ofhis young ones in the nest. The Golden Eagle seldom strays far from its native haunts,and is, probably from the nature of its habits, not numerous inany particular spot; but those habits make it but too muchso where it is found, which is, as may at once be imagined,in the most mountainous and rocky districts—the naturalhaunts of these fera^ naturae which are its food—or in large
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)OLDEN EAGLE. GOLDE?^ EAGLE. 15 forests on the plains. It is met with in India, and variousparts of Asia, as well as in every part of the continent ofEurope, and also in North America, in greater or less numbers.It was formerly far from uncommon in England, and in stillmore ancient times, in all probability, was much more frequent.In Yorkshire, one has been recorded by Arthur Strickland,Esq. as having occurred in the East Riding, and a second waskilled by Admiral Mitfords gamekeeper. Another was shot in1847, at Littlecott, the seat of Mr. Popham, near Hungerford,in Berkshire: it had glutted itself on a dead deer, and wasunable to fly away on the approach of the keeper, who firedsix times before he killed it. Another was captured in Cheshire,in the year 1845, at Somerford Park, the seat of Sir CharlesPeter Shakerley, Bart., and another, in the same county, afew years previously, near Eaton Hall, the seat of the Marquisof Westminster. It has been known to breed regularly, even up to a c

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