80 THE FEATHERED TRIBES. 



Our infonnation as to these birds is, at present, very limited. Judging from analogy, 

 they should be natives of South America, but even this point has not, as yet, been deter- 

 mined. Two of them were, some j^ears ago, in the possession of tlie Zoological Rociety. 

 In maimers these birds resemble tlie genuine eagles ; they liad the same upright attitude, 

 subsisted entirely on flesh, and i-efused fish if oflfered them. 



