THE EAGLE.
Reading edition
He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. —Alfred Tennyson.
![Illustration from Birds and Nature Vol. 09 No. 2 [February 1901]](/illustrations/5154eb96fae013b5.jpg)
GREAT-TAILED GRACKLE. (Quiscalus macrourus.) ½ Life-size. FROM COL. CHI. ACAD. SCIENCES
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