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Show 234 AVBS. 1 8 and 9. W 1.1 s . VII ' lv ' 1. (The Common Eagle. .) More oP r· less brow' n; t h e occl·p U t fawn coloured; the supenor half of the tal. l w h1. te, an d th e remainde. r black. The most common ecies in all mountainous countries: , . . , sp F. cln·ysae.. tos, E 1 • 10 (The Rmg-1 a1l Eagle.) Only dtffets n · '11' • • • from' the prece dm' g ·m 1't s blackish tail, mark. ed. w1th ICrr egular ash coloured b an d s. We are assured that 1t 1s the ommon Ea le withitsperfectplumage(l) . . Fg. 't.r nperw· h·s , B ec h s t • .' F . rno o() 'ilnik, Gm.; .!lqwtla heltaca, SaV.l g. E o· . 1 xiii. Vieillot, Gal. 9; N aum. pl. 6 and 7. l g. lS. p • ' , . Tern. Col. 15 an d 152 • (The Imperial Eagle.) St1l.l longer w.m gs· a large w h1't 'l S h spot on the scapulars; the nostr•l ls trans· verse; ' the tal.1 bl ac k.' the superior portion undulated w1th grey.. The fe rna1 e 1· s f aw n coloured ' with brown spo. ts.. Its. port IS heav.i er than t h a t o f the Common Eagle, and 1t. 1s a still mo.r e fearful object to other Birds. It inhabits ~he high rnountams f the south of Europe, and is the true subject of the exagger· ~ted tales propagated by the ancients, relating to the power, courage and magnanimity of their Golden Eagle. F. n~vius, and F. maculatus, Gm.; Naum. pl. 10 and 11; .llq. melanados, Savig. Eg. Ois. pl. 1 and pl. 2, f. 1 .. (The Spotted Eagle.) A third less than ~he t~o others; tars~ more slender; plumage brown; tail blackish, wlth paler bands, pale, fawn coloured spots, form a band on the small coverts; one at the tips of the large ones which mounts to the scap.ulars, and one at the tips of the secondary quills. The superiOr part of the wing is sprinkled with fawn colour. The old birds become all brown. This species is common in the Apennines, and _other mountains of the south of Europe; but is rarely seen m the north; it attacks the weaker animals only. It has. bee? found sufficiently docile to be employed in falconry, but 1s satd to fly from and be vanquished by the Sparrowhawk. , It has been thought proper to place among the Eagles a ~trd of Eastern Europe-Palco pennatus, Gm.; Col. 33.; Bl'lSs., Suppl. pl. 1, which scarcely resembles them in any thing exc~pt the plumed tarsi and pointed feathers of the vertex, but which is not as large as the Buzzard, and h as a b eak a 1m ost as muc. h curved; its plumage 1. s fawn co 1o urecl spotte d W'lt h brown, Its feet blue. Very rare in France and Germany.(2) in pl. Enl. 409. Finally, the F. Niger, or Black-backed E agle of B ro~v n ' is merely a slight difference of age. (1) Temm. Man. d'Ornith. I, p. 39. :M. TelllDl· (2) A living specimen, however, was taken near Paris in 1828. ACCIPITRES. 235 New Holland produces Eagles similar in form to those of Europe, the tail excepted, which is cuneiform (etagee).(1) HALI.J£Tus, Savig.-The FISHER EAGLEs, Cuv. The Fisher Eagles have the same wings as the preceding, but only the upper half of their tarsi invested with feathers, the remainder being semi-scutellated. They frequent the shores of rivers and of the sea, and feed chiefly on fish. F. ossifragua, F. albicilla, and F. albicaudua, Gm. (The Ossifragus and Pygargus.) Form but one species, which at first has a black beak; tail blackish, spotted with white, and the plumage brownish, with a deep brown streak on the middle of each feather, (Enl. 112 and 415; Naum. 14; the F. ossifragus,) and which, when older, becomes of a uniform brownish grey, paler on the head and neck, with an entirely white tail, and the beak of a pale yellow. (Frisch, lxx; N aum. 12 and 13-the F. albicilla.)( 2) It generally attacks fish, and is found in the whole north of the globe. F. leucocephalus, L.; Enl. 411; Wilson, IV, xxxvi, and VII.~ lv, 2. (The Bald Eagle.) A uniform deep brown; head and tail white; beak yellowish, and almost as large as the Common Eagle of Europe. It inhabits North America, and is continually occupied in fishing. It appears occasionally in the north of Europe. When young, the head and body are of a cinereous brown. It must not be confounded, however, with the old White-Headed Pygargus. F. ponticerianus, Gm.; Enl. 416; Vieillot, Gal. 10. (The Garuda.) Less than a Kite; of a fine lively chesnut red; head, neck and breast, white, or pearl grey. It is from India, and is the Garuda Eagle, which, in the t·eligion of the Bramins, is sacred to Vishnu.(3) ~~kes an European species of the .9.igle Bonnelli, Col. 288 ; but we have not got It m all its states. ic:d t?e Griffard, Vaill. Afric. I, (F. armz'ger, Sh. );-the Malay eagle, (F. ~a .atenata, Reinw.) Col. 117 ;-the Petit .9.igle de Senegal, (F. Senegallus, Cuv.) Similar to the Spotted, or Little Eagle of Ew·ope; the nostrils not so round, nume~ us sm~l~, grey bands underneath the tail of the young.-The Petit .9.igle du Cap, ' nlmnotdea, Cuv.) variegated with brown fawn colour and blackish. (l) F'.fuacoaua, Col. 32. ( 2 mu ) This change has been· verified more than once in the menagerie of the ~> seum. .As to the J ... ittle Pygargus, F. .!J.lbicaudua: it is merely the male of the oreat one, F. albicilla. ba~~) Here should come the Blagre, Vaill. Afric. 5, (FaZe. blagrua, Sh.) which is pro( F Y t~e F./.euco{faster, Lath. or .!l.igle oceanique, Col. 49;-the tJocifer, Vaill. Af. 4 · vocifer, Sh. ;-the .ll.igle de Mace ofBengal, (F. macei, Cuv.) Col. 8 and 223;-the |