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Items: a full-grown female of the species measures a full 3 ft. from top to tail, and her wings spread 7 ft. and more; the male, or tiercel, is smaller by a third. The golden eagle's foot is longer than a man's hand, and its talons are as sharp as a razor. Its eye, a miracle of natural engineering, focuses simultaneously upon every point in its field of vision. It can soar above the highest Rockies and power-dive upon its prey at more than 12,0 m.p.h. Its prey of preference are small animals...
Rage In a Mangold Eye. All that White knew about hawks to begin with, he had learned from three tracts on the subject and from an exchange of letters with two of the few remaining hawk-masters left in Europe. The bird was Gos, an untamed tiercel (male) of the largest European species of the short-winged hawks, only three inches smaller than a golden eagle. The scene of their encounter was a clearing in a Buckinghamshire wood, where White lived alone in a cottage...
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