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358 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN
t i e sandy nature of the soil i n their v i c i n i t y was not favourable
for construction on cliffs. But i n no case, however,
d i d any of our p a r t y find, or our collectors report having
seen, a large accumulation of bones or other food debris on
or i n the neighbourhood of the nests. The f u l l set of eggs
was i n v a r i a b l y two i n number, never more, and yet Major
C. Bendire, i n his aforesaid " L i f e H i s t o r i e s of N o r t h Ameri
c a n B i r d s , " states that James M c D o u g a l l , Chief Factor
Hudson's B a y Company, took three eggs f r om a nest found
near F o r t Y u k o n , Alaska, i n the spring of 1868, and also
that a l i k e number of eggs had been secured by M r . W i l l i am
Steinbeck, of H o l l i s t e r , C a l i f o r n i a , on M a r c h 21, 1891. In
confinement, even when taken young, they are rather fierce
and perhaps untamable, though they r e a d i l y eat the food
given to them, whether i t be fish or meat. One of four thus
reared at F o r t Anderson a year or two later ferociously
k i l l e d two of her partners. They kept their plumage i n a
very cleanly condition, and they always grasped their food in
the talons of either l e g and tore i t up w i t h their beaks. After
feeding they at once set about removing any blood or other
i m p u r i t i e s w h i c h might have adhered to the beak by scratchi
n g it w i t h their talons or rubbing i t against the bars of the
wooden cage. The eagles i n question were thus kept i n an
unheated room i n a dwelling- house d u r i n g the colder months
of the A r c t i c winter, but i n A p r i l we had them removed to
a larger cage outside, where they frequently exercised themselves
by j u m p i n g off and on their roosting poles, and they
also seemed much interested i n a l l that they observed t a k i ng
place w i t h i n the F o r t square. In this connection it seems
remarkable that, i n the case of the nests and young discovered
by us, the parent eagles never gave any trouble or made any
attempt to defend either. Mice, lemmings, and marmots
f o rm no unimportant i t em i n the diet of the golden eagle,
one of which was once observed by us hunting a P a r r y ' s
Spermophile, or marmot, near Langton Harbour, F r a n k l in
B a y .
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| OCR | 358 T H R O U G H T H E M A C K E N Z I E B A S IN t i e sandy nature of the soil i n their v i c i n i t y was not favourable for construction on cliffs. But i n no case, however, d i d any of our p a r t y find, or our collectors report having seen, a large accumulation of bones or other food debris on or i n the neighbourhood of the nests. The f u l l set of eggs was i n v a r i a b l y two i n number, never more, and yet Major C. Bendire, i n his aforesaid " L i f e H i s t o r i e s of N o r t h Ameri c a n B i r d s , " states that James M c D o u g a l l , Chief Factor Hudson's B a y Company, took three eggs f r om a nest found near F o r t Y u k o n , Alaska, i n the spring of 1868, and also that a l i k e number of eggs had been secured by M r . W i l l i am Steinbeck, of H o l l i s t e r , C a l i f o r n i a , on M a r c h 21, 1891. In confinement, even when taken young, they are rather fierce and perhaps untamable, though they r e a d i l y eat the food given to them, whether i t be fish or meat. One of four thus reared at F o r t Anderson a year or two later ferociously k i l l e d two of her partners. They kept their plumage i n a very cleanly condition, and they always grasped their food in the talons of either l e g and tore i t up w i t h their beaks. After feeding they at once set about removing any blood or other i m p u r i t i e s w h i c h might have adhered to the beak by scratchi n g it w i t h their talons or rubbing i t against the bars of the wooden cage. The eagles i n question were thus kept i n an unheated room i n a dwelling- house d u r i n g the colder months of the A r c t i c winter, but i n A p r i l we had them removed to a larger cage outside, where they frequently exercised themselves by j u m p i n g off and on their roosting poles, and they also seemed much interested i n a l l that they observed t a k i ng place w i t h i n the F o r t square. In this connection it seems remarkable that, i n the case of the nests and young discovered by us, the parent eagles never gave any trouble or made any attempt to defend either. Mice, lemmings, and marmots f o rm no unimportant i t em i n the diet of the golden eagle, one of which was once observed by us hunting a P a r r y ' s Spermophile, or marmot, near Langton Harbour, F r a n k l in B a y . |
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