_Eagles supporting Lecterns_ (Vol. vi., pp. 415. 543.).--Are not many, or
most of the so-called _eagles_ on lecterns in churches, _pelicans_? The
symbolical significance of the pelican "vulning its breast," as the heralds
have it, is well known. Some of these, which I remember well, have the beak
bent down upon the breast and beneath it, instead of the indications of
plumage elsewhere visible, a strip cross-hatched; in sign, as I have
supposed, of the flowing blood.