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ORIENTAL j J ^ E N G TH feventeen inches. The bill pretty large, hooked, and
N s blackj the under mandible yellow at the bafe : the upper part of
D escription the body, in general, of a very dark brown, but darkeft on the head :
over the eye is a ferruginous ftreak: the under part of the body ferruginous
brown, with a black ftreak down the middle of each feather,
which is belides marked with fome fpots of pale ferruginous : thighs
and vent much the fame, but the laft banded with brown : the quills
are dark brown, the inner webs marked with oval fpots of white, placed
tranfverfely; befides which, there is an obfcure dulky-white fpot on all,
except the three firft : the under wing-coverts are ferruginous, fpotted
with white : the tail eight inches long; all the feathers marked with
obfcure dirty-white fpots, from the bafe to within an inch and a half of
the end, which is dulky: the legs are pale lead-colour: claws black.
This is alfo in the pofieffion of Mr. Banks. Both of them flew on
board a Ihip, near the coaft of Japan.
Lev. Mu/L
T ENGTH feventeen inches. Bill yellow at the bale, and black at the
tip : the cere yellow: forehead white : upper parts of the body red-
Discriftion. ^jflj.brown, inclining molt to red on the wing-coverts; the lhafts of
which are darkeft : the under wing-coverts of a dirty reddilh-white,
undulated with ferruginous: quills dark brown on the outer, and deep
ferruginous on the inner webs, which are tranfverfely barred with black;
the ends nearly black: nape of the neck blotched with white, as in the
Sparrow Hawk: the tail-coverts are tipped with white: the tail brown,
even at the end, and banded with black; the bands five in number:- the
wings reach to near the end of the tail: the throat and breaft like the'
upper parts, but paler; the margins of the feathers very pale: the belly
ferruginous brown, barred with white : thighs the fame, but paler: vent
white: legs yellow and ftout: claws black.
Place. Suppofed to inhabit Java, as the above bird flew on board a Ihip off
that ifland.
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Accipirtr ferox.1V. C. a e.fi. Pelrêp. 'vól. lev. t. ló.-p. 442,
'jp H lS bird is very little inferior in iize to the former. The
__bill is lead-colour:' cere green : -hides yellow : -eyelids and
pupil blue: over the eyes are long, black, ftiff hairs: the
upper parts are ferruginous brown: the crown and hind head
have a iittle mixture of white : the fore .part of the neck -is
-ferruginous, with a mixture of white: the breaft and belly white,
fpotted with chefnut: the quills are black on the upper fur-
face ; within brown and white; beneath white ; towards the end
•grey-: the wing-coverts are .paler than the body, fpotted with
ferruginous forwards, and -white "behind : tail brown ; the feathers
on-the pofterior fide white, fafeiated with four bands of
•deep brown : the rump is whitilh: legs white, thick, and rough:'
claws crooked.
-This bird is faid to be remarkably fierce j will not touch dead
animals; was found frequent near the-city of AJtrnchaK, in the
winter o f 1769.
Vultur albiulla, Lin.fyfi. i. p.123. N° 8.
L ’Aigle a queue blanche, Brif. cm. i. p. 427. N°
Le grand Pygargue, Buf. cif. i. p. -gg.— Pl. eat. 411;
-Pygargus, Raii./yv., p. 7. N° 5.
Braun-fahle Adler, Frifib. t. 70.
White-tailed Eagle, mil. cm. p. 6i.
-Cinereous Eagle, Br. Zool, i. p. 170, 4. 18,
S IZ E of a Turkey: length two feet nine inches. Bill of a pale
yellow colour, ftrait at the bafe: cere and irides the fame:
fpace between the eyes bare, and of a blueilh colour : the head
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