Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 67
ng a young bird alive. The nest being inacces- sible, the tree was cut down, and with it one young bird (unfortunately killed by the fall) came to the ground. The eaglet was covered with down, interspersed with a few feathers. The nest was rather flat, and composed of sticks; it contained the heads… … Mr. Langtrey was told that two or three pair of Bald Eagles build annually about Mobile Bay, and had their nests pointed out to him.”’ It is always a very affectionate bird, tends its young as long as they are helpless and un- fledged, and will not forsake them, even if the tree on which they rest…
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