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Identifier: storiesaboutbird00kirb (find matches)
Title: Stories about birds of land and water
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893 Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: Hartford (Conn.) : American Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE GOLDEN EAGLE. shines like gold. He can sec far and wide, and deep down below into thevalley his glance penetrates. THE EAGLE, 13 He is armed for the very purpose of plunder. His beak is hooked andstrong, and the edges cut Hke a knife. His feet have four powerful toes,
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THE ROYAL EAGLE, A VARIETY OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE. armed with sharp talons, long and pointed, and formed for clutching. Hehas no gizzard, for he reauirc none. He never feeds on anything but flesh, J4 STOniES ABOUT BIRDS. and the coats of his stomach are firm enough to digest it. He never warblesto his mate, or utters any of those sweet and tender notes that are so pleasantto the ear ; his voice is like his nature, harsh and forbidding ; it resembles thebark of a dog more than any other sound. The nest of the eagle is very large indeed, and made of sticks and deadtwigs and heath, and it has a hollow place in the middle lined with a littlewool and feathers. The young birds are covered with white down, amid which the feathersare beginning to appear. You can sec that the parent eagles have taken careto provide them with abundance of food. The bones of all kinds of smallanimals lie scattered about the nest, and the half-eaten bodies of grouse andgame, the very morsels that are considered to b

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