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brown, each feather edged with pale brown: beneath the body is
white, with round black fpots: bread: rufous : the Tides fafciated
with black : tail above deep grey, tranfverfely banded with
black : toes bright orange : claws black.
The feathers on the top of the head are long enough to form
a creft, which may be eredted or depreffed at will.
Buffon * fays that this bird, and the Crefted Vulture, N° 2,
vary fo little, as to induce him to believe them the fame, differing
only from climate.
Falco melanaetus, Lin. Syß. i. p. 124. N® 2.
t ’Aigle noir, Brif. orn. i. p. 434. N° 8.
L’Aigle commun, Buf. oif. i. p. 86.
— —--------------PL enl. 409.
Melanaastos, Raii Syn. p. 7, N° 4.
Schwartzer-braune Adler, Frifch. t. 6gi
Black Eagle, Will orn. p. 61, fedt. 3. t. 2.
■ ■ ■ ■ — — Albin. ii. p. 2.
J ENGTH two feet ten inches. Bill horn-colour, with a tinge
of blue : cere reddifh: indes hazel: general colour blackifh:
the head and upper part of the neck mixed with rufous : lower
half of the tail white, with blackifh fpots, the end half blackifh :
legs covered with dirty white feathers: toes yellow: claws
black.
Inhabits Europe.
# Hiß des Oi/. i. p. 137, N° 2»
Falco
Falco leucocephalus, Liu. Syft. i. p, 124. N° 3.
L ’Aigle a tête blanche, Brif. orn. i. p. 422. N° 2«
Le Pygargue, Buf. oif i. p. 90.
— ----------- PI. enl. 411.
Bald Eagle, Catef Car. i. t. 1.
—■ 1 Am. Zool. N°
Lev. Muf.
1~ ENGTH three feet three inches ; weight nine pounds. The
bill and cere are yellow : the irides white : the head, * neck,
and tail are white ; the reft o f the body dark brown : upper part
o f the lhins covered with brown feathers, as the reft o f the
body ; the lower half and toes are yellow : claws black.
Inhabits Europe ; but more common in North America, preying
on both flefh and fifhj the latter it does not procure for itfelf,
but, fitting in a convenient fpot, watches the diving o f the Ofprey
into the water after a fifh, which the moment it has feized, the
Bald Eagle follows clofe after, when the Ofprey is glad to efcape
by dropping the fifh from his b ill; and fuch is the dexterity
o f the former, that it often feizes the unmerited prey before it
can fall to the ground. Catejby fays,, the male and female are
much alike.
* It does not get the white head and neck till the fécond year.
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