a large North American eagle, Aquila chrysaetos.
- 1784  A variety of the Golden Eagle is also a native of the same place.
- 1935  The head-dress of golden eagle feathers swaying in the wind still symbolizes, for imaginative youth, "trailing clouds of glory."
- 1964  . . . he actually succeeded in carrying alive two eagles, a golden, and a bald, only to have them die when two-thirds of the journey were ended!