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New Holland produces Eagles similar in form to those of 

 Europe, the tail excepted, which is cuneiform (etagee).(l) 



Hali^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. ossifragus, F. albicilla, and F. albicaiidus^ Gm. (The Ossi- 

 fragus and Pygargus.) Form but one species, which atfirsthas 

 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, Ixx; Naum. 12 and 13 the F. albi- 

 cilla.){2) It generally attacks fish, and is found in the whole 

 north of the globe. 



F. leucocephcdus,!..; Enl. 411; Wilson, IV, xxxvi, and VII., 

 Iv, 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 religion of the Bramins, is 

 sacred to Vishnu.(3) 



makes an European species of the Mgle Bonnelli, Col. 288 ; but we have not got 

 it in all its states. 



Add the Griffard, Vaill. Afrlc. I, {F. armiger, Sh.); the Malay eagle, {F. 

 malaiemis, Reinw.) Col. 117; the Petit Mgle de Senegal, {F. Senegallus, Cuv.) 

 similar to the Spotted, or Little Eagle of Europe; the nostrils not so round, nume. 

 rous small, grey bands underneath the tail of the young. The Petit Mgle du Cap, 

 [F. nxvioides, Cuv.) variegated with brown fawn colour and blackish. 



(1) F.fuscosus, Col. 32. 



(2) This change has been verified more than once in the menagerie of the 

 museum. As to the Little Pygargus, F. Albicaudus; it is merely the male of the 

 great one, F. albicilla- 



(3) Here should come the Blagre, Vaill. Afric.5, {Falc. blagrus, Sh.) which is pro- 

 bably the F. leucogaster. Lath, or Mgle oceanique. Col. 49; the vocifer, Vaill. Af. 4, 

 [F. vocifer, Sh. ; ) the Jigle de Macd of Bengal, (F. macei, Cuv.) Col. 8 and 223; the 



