The Bald Eagle
Attends The Gunners In Winter, With All The Obsequiousness Imaginable,
And When He Shoots And Kills Any Fowl, The Eagle Surely Comes In For His Bird;
And Besides, Those That Are Wounded, And Escape The Fowler,
Fall To The Eagle's Share.
He is an excellent Artist at stealing young Pigs,
which Prey he carries alive to his Nest, at which
Time the poor Pig
makes such a Noise over Head, that Strangers that have heard them cry,
and not seen the Bird and his Prey, have thought there were
Flying Sows and Pigs in that Country. The Eagle's Nest is made of Twigs,
Sticks and Rubbish. It is big enough to fill a handsome Carts Body,
and commonly so full of nasty Bones and Carcasses that it stinks
most offensively. This Eagle is not bald, till he is one or two years old.
{Gray Eagle.}
The gray Eagle is altogether the same sort of Bird, as the Eagle in Europe;
therefore, we shall treat no farther of him.
{Fishing-Hawk.}
The Fishing-Hawk is the Eagle's Jackal, which most commonly
(though not always) takes his Prey for him. He is a large Bird,
being above two thirds as big as the Eagle. He builds his Nest
as the Eagles do; that is, in a dead Cypress-Tree, either standing in,
or hard by, the Water. The Eagle and this Bird seldom sit on a living Tree.
He is of a gray pied Colour, and the most dexterous Fowl in Nature
at Catching of Fish, which he wholly lives on, never eating any Flesh.
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