. Life histories of North American birds with special reference to their breeding habits and eggs [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. rtm THE HARPY EAGLE. 271 ingly correct. Ho says: "The Iliirpy Eaj^le (^Harpia dcstrudor) has been sliot in the mountains of southwestern BoHvia, in the Monies du Diable of San Domingo, and in the valleys of southern California ; l)Ut a hunter may range those regions for years without getting a chance to add ti) his trophies the feather coronet of the Aquila real, the King Eagle, as the Spaniards call him, while every farmer's boy of an Oaxaca Mount
. Life histories of North American birds with special reference to their breeding habits and eggs [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. rtm THE HARPY EAGLE. 271 ingly correct. Ho says: "The Iliirpy Eaj^le (^Harpia dcstrudor) has been sliot in the mountains of southwestern BoHvia, in the Monies du Diable of San Domingo, and in the valleys of southern California ; l)Ut a hunter may range those regions for years without getting a chance to add ti) his trophies the feather coronet of the Aquila real, the King Eagle, as the Spaniards call him, while every farmer's boy of an Oaxaca Mountain village knows an eyrie or two in the neighboring crags, which ho is ready to rol) of its eaglets or large whit(» eggs for a couple of reals. From the projecting rocks of the Lower Sierra on any bright morning of the year one may see the hovering form of tlie Destructor suspended in the clear sky or wheeling in ascending circles over the misty ocean of foliage; and from March to the end of June the tree tops of the Tirna calknte resound with the screams of the ever-hungry eaglets. + * « "The Loho aolantc, lu- Winged Wolf, as Quesada translates the old Aztec name of the Harpy, attacks and kills heavy old Turkeycocks, young fawns, sloths, full-grown foxes and l)adgers, middle-sized pigs, and even the black Sai)ayou monkey (Afcirs 2)), whose size and weight exceed its own more tlian three times. * « * "As soon as the lengthening days of the year approach the vernal ecpiiuox the hen Harpy l)egins to collect (by sticks and moss, or perhaps only lichens, witii a few clawsful of tlie feathery bast of the Arauca pabii, it' her last year's eyrie has been left undisturlied. Her favorite roosting places are the highest forest trees, uspetnally tlie Adausouia and the PiiiKs Ixilsdiiiifrni; the more inaccessible rocks of the foothills are also com- monly chosen for a l>reeding place, and it is not to distinguish her coini)actly built eyrie on the highest br
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