CLASS 11. 



BIRDS. 



D I V. I. LAND BIRDS, 

 Order I. RAPACIOUS. 



Scrono; hooked BILL, the bafe covered with a I- F A L 



CONS. 

 CERE or naked ikin. The firft joiric of the 



middle toe connedled to that of the outmoft by a 



membrane. 



Grand aigle royal. j5^/<?« «<!;. 89. Orn. Faun. Suec, /p. 54. 42. Golden- 



Aquila Germana. Gefti. a^. 168. L' Aigle dore. Brijfon a-v» Eagle. 



Aquila, aguglia, Chryfaetos. I. 431. 



Jldr. 1.62. Golden eagle. 5r. Zoo/. 61. 



Gnefios. Pliniilib. 10. c. 3. Tab. A. PL Enl. 410. 



TAe golden eagle. IVil, orn. 8. Stein'adler. Kram. 325. ^co- 



Aquila aurea, leu fulva. Rail poll. No. i. 



fyn. a^o. 6. Le grand Aigle. HtJ}, 



Faleo Chrylaetos. Lin. fyji. D'Oys. i. 76. 



125. 



THIS fpecies is found in the mountanous 

 parts of Ireland where it breeds in the lofti- 

 eft cliffs : it lays three, and fometimes four eggs, 

 of which feldom more than two are prolific-, pro- 

 vidence 



