This fpeci'es is found at Pondicherry, in the Eajt Indies. It is'
held as a facred bird, and worfhlpped in confequence, by the natives
on the coaft of Malabar.
12,
BLACK-BACKED
E.
DsiSRJPTION.
Black-backed Eagle, Brown's III. p. 4» 2‘
nr HI S is a large bird,, faid to be o f the fize o f the Golden
"*■ Eagle. The bill is black : cere yellow : head, hind part o f
the neck,, belly,-and wing coverts, are ferruginous : the fore part
o f the neck, breaft,. back, and quills, are black : bafe of the tail,,
to the middle, is white; the end half black: legs yellow, covered-
to the toes with ferruginous feathers: claws bla ck.
From, whence i t came, unknown.
23.
WHITE-
CROWNED E;
DESCRIPTION.
Aquila leucorypha, Pattal Voy. 2. p. 434. N° J;
rpH'E fize is equal to an Ofprey,. and not. much unlike that:
b ird ; but the limbs are longer 5 it expands fix feet, and:
weighs,nearly fix pounds. The bill is ftrait at the bafe: cere o f at
livid afh-colour: irides grey brown, with a black outer circle: the-
head is grey brown, with a- triangular white fpot on' the crown:
throat white: fides of-the head: darker than the reft (as in the
Ofprey)': the upper part o f the body is-of a clouded brown colour;
the parts beneath, the fame, but paler: fecond coverts.;
have grey margins : quills very dark: tail longifh, even at the
end, black at the tip, and white beneath; fame o f the fide—
feathers are dotted within, with white:, the legs are pale; onethird!
third of the fliins covered with feathers : claws large, black: no
membrane between the toes.
This bird frequents the more fouthern parts of the Jaick.
. Aquila mogilnick, Nov. tom. ac. Petr. vol. xv. t. n . 0.
n pH E lize is not mentioned; but by the name Eagle, it cannot
be very finall. The bill is black: cere and fides of the
bill luteous : eye-lids blue : iris lurid : head, neck, and back, o f
an obfcure ferruginous brown, here and there mixed with a little
white : the pofterior and inferior lides of the quills fpotted with
grey; the tips of the fourth, fifth, fixth, and feventh, black; the
reft undulated, with rufous tips : wings reach almoft to the end
of the tail: the under parts are the fame colour as thofe above»
but without any mixture of white : greater wing-coverts brown,
with ferruginous tips ; lefier coverts half brown half rufous :
tail black, with grey bands; the tips rufous : the legs are feathered
to the claws, like to thofe of fome kinds of owlsj they
are of a luteous colour, with black claws.
Inhabits Ruffia, along with N° 46, and often feen with it near
the city of 'Tfcbercajk.
T H E length of this lpecies is twenty-one inches ; breadth
three feet and a half. The bill is of a pale colour, with a
black tip : the head, neck as far as the breaft, and the upper
part of the body, dark brown, inclining to black : fcapulars and
wing-coverts chocolate brown; the bafe and margin of each fea-
G 2 ther
*+• i
RUSSIAN
E.
D e s c r i p t io n .
wEQUINeCTIAL
E.
N. S.
D e s c r i p t io n .