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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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comes near enough tothe surface, he pounces on it, and is seen rising with it in his talons. Hethinks he is secure of his prey, but now and then he meets with a disappoint-ment. The sea eagle has been watching close by on some crag on the lonelybeach. Now he bends his head, makes a great swoop on the hawk, andfrightens him so that he drops his prize. Then the eagle, by a very adroitswoop, catches it before it reaches the water, and carries it off. There is a story about the sea eagle that some people can hardly believe,though others declare it is true. He is said to wet his plumage in the sea, and then roll about on the sanduntil a great deal of it adheres to him. It is in Norway where this happens, and at a place not far from somemountain pasture, in which cattle are feeding. He docs not attack the poorox in an open manner, because, as I told you, he was rather a coward. Hehovers over the ox, and by-and-by begins to shake the sand from his wings, ATTACK OF A SEA EAGLE UPON AN OX. lO
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THE TUFTED EAGLE. SO that a great deal of it falls into the eyes of his intended victim. The oxis blinded, and also begins to get frightened by the noise of wings overhis head. He runs about in a kind of panic, and as the noise goes on, andthe sand keeps falling, he loses all sight and sense. There is generally a B 2 20 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. steep place like a precipice at the edge of the field, and the ox Is almost sure,sooner or later, to run over it and be killed. Then the eagle can easily slipdown and devour him. THE TUFTED EAGLE. There is a small eagle with a tuft on his head that lives in Africa, and hassuch a very dreamy appearance as he sits on the branch of a tree, that youthink he is asleep, or else is a very stupid bird. He lives in those fertile parts of the country through which the river Nileflows and gladdens the scene. There are fields, and \illages, and beautifulgroves of the mimosa-tree. He often sits perched on a branch for hourstogether ; but he is not asleep, as yo

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