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The Musical Blackbird

large as itself and flies off with it, dropping it by mistake in its hurry near where the dusky watcher is concealed, who darts out and appropriates the welcome windfall to his own use. The Imperial Eagle.

The flight of the Bald Eagle, when taken into consideration with the ardor and energy of his character, is noble and interesting. Sometimes the human eye can just discern him, like a minute speck, moving in slow curvatures along the face of the heavens, as if reconnoitring the earth at that immense distance. Sometimes he glides along in a direct horizontal line, at a vast height, with expanded and unmoving wings, till he gradually disappears in the distant blue ether. Seen - gliding in easy circles over the high shores and mountainous cliffs that tower