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Aquila chrysaetos.
Lake Umbagog, Maine.
1897. at higher elevations above the earth.
Sept.21.
4
1907 Aquila canadensis Andover
Vocal notes Me.
Oct. 30
I saw John Morgan's
Golden Eagle to-day. It
is in superb plumage & has
lost practically all trace of
white on the tail. It was
a young bird not long out of
the nest when he got it
at Andover, Mass., & he has
had it nine years. It
frequently utters a hew-hew-
hew- hew- hew- hew- hew
rather melodic in tone and
suggesting the call of a
heron flying. This song is
the only sound Morgan has
ever heard it make. The
bird is owned by
the son of the owner of
what