THE EAGLE. 16)

victims to any casualty. The female generally lays two
eggs, and the eyrie, which is used as a dwelling, as well as
a nest for the young, is placed on a ledge of rock, very
rarely on a tree. Jeremiah alludes to the nest of the eagle,
in his denunciations against the Ammonites, showing that
the habits of the bird were well known to him: “O thou
that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the
height of the hill, though thou shouldest make thy nest
as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence,
saith the Lord.”

The eagle takes that place amongst birds which is given
to the lion amongst quadrupeds, being considered the king
of the feathered tribe; it was also, in the heathen mytho-
logy, made the associate and emblem of Jupiter himself,
and is still called the bird of Jove.

Eagles may be divided into four distinct kinds :—“ the
Eagle par excellence, meaning the golden eagle and the
rest of the more powerful mountaineers agreeing most
closely with it in habit; Vulture Eagles, or those which
live more in the vicinity of woods, and which, though large
in size, are not so compactly built, or proportionately so
strong; Fishing Eagles, or those which chiefly or partially
levy their contributions upon the waters; and Hawk

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