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brown, the quil feathers very dark: the tail white: 

 the legs feathered but little below the knees, and 

 of a very light yellow. The male is of a darker 

 color than the female. 



The bill of this is rather flraiter than is ufual 

 in the eagle, which feems to have induced Lmn^us 

 to place it among the vultures •, but it can have no 

 clame to be ranked with that genus, for the pygar- 

 gus is wholly feathered ; whereas, the charaderif- 

 tical mark of the vulture is, that the head and neck 

 are either quite bare, or only covered with down. 



Inhabits Scotland^ and the Orknies^ and feeds on 

 filh, as well as on land animals. 



FALCONRY. 



Falconry was the principal amufementofour an- 

 ceftors : a perfon -^f rank fcarce ftirred out with- 

 out his hawk on hi., ^and; which, in old paint- 

 ings, is the criterion . ^ nobility. Harold^ af- 

 terwards king of England^ when he went on a 

 moft important embaffy into Normandy^ is paint- 

 ed embarking with a bird on his fid, and a dog 

 under his arm * : and in an antient pidure of the 

 nuptials of Henry VI. a nobleman is reprefented 

 in much the fame manner f •, for in thofe days. It 

 was thought fujident for noblemen's fons to winde their 



• Monfaucon monumens de la monarchic francoife, I. 372. 

 f Mr, WalpoU^s anecdotes of paintings I. 33. 



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