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Updated: May 12, 2025
Numerous stories are told of its swooping down and carrying off young children, lambs, goats, and other small animals. Those who will may believe these stories. I do not. The lammergeyer is quite content to make a meal of offal, old bones, or other refuse. First and foremost of the Falconidæ are the eagles.
"The nest of a lammergeyer!" exclaimed the izzard-hunter, the moment his eye glanced up to it. "Just so! my dogs are right: the bear has taken shelter in the nest of the birds!" This was evident to all. Bruin had climbed the tree, and was now snugly ensconced in the great nest of the vulture-eagles, though not a hair of his shaggy hide could be visible from below.
It is somewhat strange that the boy hunter, Lucien, should have known this "fact," as I believe it is not in possession of the naturalists. I, myself, was made acquainted with it by one of the "feeders" of the superb collection in Regent's Park who had observed this propensity for bone-eating in a young African lammergeyer.
Dawn already whitened the east; and up out of the ghastly fog edging the German Empire, silhouetted, monstrous, against the daybreak, soared a Lämmergeyer, beating the livid void with enormous, unclean wings. The orderly heard its scream, shrank, cowering, against the door frame as the huge bird’s ferocious red and yellow eyes blazed level with his.
What freight could we ha' put into the Lammergeyer would equal salvage on four hunder thousand pounds hull an' cargo? Eh, McPhee? This cuts the liver out o' Holdock, Steiner, Chase & Company, Limited. Eh, McPhee? An' I'm sufferin' from senile dementia now? Eh, MCPhee? An' I'm not daft, am I, till I begin to paint the Lammergeyer? Eh, McPhee? Ye may weel lift your leg, Dandie!
"Syne Bell got orders to tak' the Kite round to Liverpool in water-ballast, and McRimmon came to bid's good-bye, yammerin' an' whinin' o'er the acres o' paint he'd lavished on the Lammergeyer. "'I look to you to retrieve it, says he. 'I look to you to reimburse me! 'Fore God, why are ye not cast off? Are ye dawdlin' in dock for a purpose? "'What odds, McRimmon? says Bell.
But you earth-fettered we shall watch your wings Topping the mountains, battling winds, to dare Challenge the lammergeyer where she swings Down the long lanes of air. And when you take the skylark for your guide, And soar straight up to sun-drenched shores of Time, Immortal singers there shall, eager-eyed, Await your new-born rhyme.
"She was our big freighter McIntyre was engineer an' I knew she'd come from overhaul not three months. That morn I met McRimmon's head-clerk ye'll not know him fair bitin' his nails off wi' mortification. "'The auld man's gone gyte, says he. 'He's withdrawn the Lammergeyer. "'Maybe he has reasons, says I. "'Reasons! He's daft! "'He'll no be daft till he begins to paint, I said.
Birds of many European species frequent the lower forests of the Pyrenees, or fill the sheltered valleys with their vocal music; while, soaring above the mountain summits, may be seen the great vulture-eagle, or "lammergeyer," watching with greedy eye the feeble lambkin, or the new-born kid of the ibex and izzard.
After a long, long while, the horror still thickly clogging vein and brain, he scratched a match, hesitated, then holding it high, reeled toward the door with face averted. Outside the sun was already above the horizon, flashing over Haut Alsace at his feet. The Lämmergeyer was a speck in the sky, poised over France.
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