. Birds of the wave and woodland. Illustrated by Charles Whymper and others . sea-eagle, and the poor parrots nurseries, when theyoung ones sit outside their burrows, innocent of danger,pay heavy tribute to the paramount lord of the northernsky. No ernes nest is completely furnished unless it bestrewn with puffins beaks. The fierce sea-eagleIn port terrific, from his lonely eyrie(Itself a burden for the tallest tree)Looks down oer land and sea as his dominion,Or from long chase ascending with his preyFeeds his eaglets in the noonday sun. Oddly enough, the fierce sea-eagle and the poor puffinfi
. Birds of the wave and woodland. Illustrated by Charles Whymper and others . sea-eagle, and the poor parrots nurseries, when theyoung ones sit outside their burrows, innocent of danger,pay heavy tribute to the paramount lord of the northernsky. No ernes nest is completely furnished unless it bestrewn with puffins beaks. The fierce sea-eagleIn port terrific, from his lonely eyrie(Itself a burden for the tallest tree)Looks down oer land and sea as his dominion,Or from long chase ascending with his preyFeeds his eaglets in the noonday sun. Oddly enough, the fierce sea-eagle and the poor puffinfind another connecting link, less strained than that ofbeing the eater and the eaten, in the rabbit. The ernewill often take up its quarters for a time near a warren,and the sea-parrots do the same ; but their reasons are verydifferent, for while the former goes among the coneys forits meals, the latter does so to borrow the use of theirburrows. And they live together on apparent terms ofamity, much as the burrowing-owl and the prairie-dog livetogether on the Texan
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