Eagle
a name given to many birds of prey in the family Falconidæ and the order Accipitres. res. The golden eagle, the white-headed eagle and the sea eagles are characteristic examples. The falcon family includes over 300 predaceous birds, feeding for the most part on living animals, hunting by day, and living usually on exposed rocky places.
EAGLE PASS They are cosmopolitan in distribution. The bill is powerful, but rather short, high at the root, and slightly curved; complete; the upper margin of the eyecomplete; the upper margin of the eyecartilaginous frame-work. The deep, capacious central space to which several cartilaginous frame-work. The deep, capacious central space to which several tory canal passes from the concha inand the lowest and pendulous portion tory canal passes from the concha inof the ear is termed the lobe. The audiward and a little forward for rather more than an inch. It is narrower at the middle than at either extremity; and on this account there is often considerable difficulty in extracting foreign bodies which have been inserted into it.
The membrane of the tympanum or drum which terminates it is placed obliquely, in consequence of the lower surface of the meatus being longer than the upper. The canal is partly cartilaginous and partly osseus; the osseus portion consisting, in the fœtus, of a ring of bone, across which the membrane is stretched, and in many animals remaining persistently as a separate bone. The orifice of the meatus is concealed by a pointed process, which projects from the facial direction over it like a valve, and which is called the tragus, probably from sometimes being covered with bristly hair like that of a goat (tragus); and it is further deglands, which furnish an adhesive, yellow, and bitter secretion, the cerumen low, and bitter secretion, the cerumen or wax, which entangles small insects, AMERICAN BALD-HEADED EAGLE AMERICAN BALD-HEADED EAGLE feathered; the soles of the feet bear large call callosities. It is a matter of much difficulty to separate the eagles defidifficulty to separate the eagles defizards, kites, and hawks. on