Class II. S E A E A G L E. 167 



white tailed eagle, p. 61. to be but a variety of 

 this, having the fame charadleriftic mark, and dif- 

 fering only in the pale color of the head. 



The antients believed, that the pebble, com- 

 monly called the ^//V^j*, or eagle (lone, was form- 

 ed in the eagle's neft ; and that the eggs could not 

 be hatched without its affiftance. Many abfurd 

 ftories have been raifed about this foflil, which (as 

 it bears but an imaginary relation to the eagle) 

 mud be omitted in a zoologic work. 



Bein-brecher, Offifraga, MeeV- Sea eagle. Dale's Harn,vkh. ^^^ Sea Ea- 



adler, Fifch-arn, Haliaeetos. 396. gle. 



Gefnsr a-j, 201. 203. Martin's hift. Wejl. ijles 70. 



Halistos. Turneri. Le grand aigle de mer. Brif- 



Auguifta barhata, Oflifraga. /on av. i. 437. 



JUr. a-o. i. 118. Sea eagle. Br, Zool. 6^. PI- 



Haliseetos. Plinii lib. 10. c. 3. £nL 112. 415. 



SiS, hijl. Scot. 14. Falco offifragus. Un. ^-Jf. 



Sea eagle, or olprey, WiL cm, 1 24. 



-g ' Gaafe orn. Brminich 13. 



Raiifyn, a^v. 7. L'Orfrair. HiJl, d'oys. I. 1 1 2, 



TH I S fpecies is found in Ireland,, and feveral 

 parts of Great Britain -, the fpecimen we took 

 our defcrlption from, was fhot in the county of 

 Galway : Mr. milughhy tells us there was an aery 



* If , the reader's curiofity (hould be excited, we refer him 

 for information to Pliny, lib. x. c. 3. lib. xxx. c. 21. to 

 Boetittsde gemmis,p. 375. to Dr. Wood-'ward's catalogue of 

 foflils, vol, i. p. 53. c, 368, 269. and Gr.^-M'^ Rarities, p. 297. 



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