Stories about birds of land and water (1874) (14770675393)

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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alon, and acertain fierce courage that has a kind of grandeur about it. But they lack theintelligence of the smaller birds ; they have not the skill of weaving orbuilding those exquisite nests about which we shall speak presently ; norhave they the gift of song. Their voices are harsh and screaming ; theydo not gladden the summer landscape, and their abode is in wild and solitaryplaces. You see the eagle, as he sits on the crag of some mountain top. He iscalled the King of the Birds, and well deserves his title. He is monarch ofall he surveys. Around him are the mighty peaks of the rocks, the deep darkpine forest, and the chasms, the dells, and the pits, that men behold withwonder and with dread. The eagles wing has borne him over them with ease.Perhaps he has his nest in yonder ledge of the precipice. There the mother 12 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. eagle tends her young, and he has come forth to procure them food. Hestands erect, the sun ghstening on the yellow tints of his plumage until it

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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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