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AQUILA CHRYSAETUS. THE GOLDEN EAGLE. 



BLACK EAGLE. RING-TAILED EAGLE. BROWN EAGLE. lOLAIR DHUBII. 



Falco Chrysaetos. Linn, Syst. Na(. I, l-J."). Adult. 

 Falco fulvus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 12,5. Young. 

 Falco Chrysaetos. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 12. Adult. 

 Falco fulvus. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 10. Young. 

 Golden Eagle. Mont. Oiu. Diet. Adult. 

 Ring-tail Eagle. Moat. Orn. Diet. Young. 

 Aigle Eoyal. Falco fulvus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 38. 

 Golden Eagle, Aquila Chrysaiitus. Selb. lUustr. 

 Falco Cbrysaetus. Golden Eagle. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 



Tail slightly rounded, longer than the wings ; the general 

 colour brown ; the feathers of the head, neck, tarsus, and inner 

 part of tibia light yelloicish-broicn, the tail broicnish-black, more 

 or less variegated icith grey. Young dark-broicn, with the basal 

 half of the tail ichite. 



The Golden Eagle, which, with the excejotion of the White- 

 tailed Sea-Eagle, is the largest of our Raptores, is the only 



