216 BIROS, 



F. nc^vius 3i\u\ F. maculatus, Gm. ; Naum. pi. 10 and 11; /4q. 

 melanaetos, Savig. Eg. Ois. pi. 1, and pi. 2, f. 1. (The Smaller or 

 Spotted Eagle). A third less than the two others ; tarsi more slender ; 

 plumage brown ; tail blackish, with paler bands ; pale fawn coloured 

 spots form a band on the small coverts ; one at the tips of the large 

 ones which mounts to the scapulars, and one at the tips of the se- 

 condary quills. The superior part of the wing is sprinkled with 

 favra colour. The old birds become all brown. This species is 

 common in the Appennines, and other mountains of the south of 

 Europe; but is rarely seen in the north: it attacks the weaker ani- 

 mals only. It has been found sufficiently docile to be employed 

 in falconry, but is said to fly from and be vanquished by the Spar- 

 row-hawk. 



It has been thought proper to place among the Eagles a bird of 

 Eastern Europe — Faico pennatus, Gm. ; Col. 33; Briss., Suppl. 

 pi. 1, which scarcely resembles them in any thing except the plumed 

 tarsi and pointed feathers of the vertex, but which is not as large as 

 the Buzzard, and has a bill almost as much curved; its plumage is 

 fawn coloured spotted with brown; its feet blue. Very rare in 

 France and Germany.* 



New Holland produces Eagles similar in form to those of Europe, 

 the tail excepted, which is cuneiform {eta(jee).-\ 



Hali^tus, Savig. — The Fisher Eagles, Cuv. 



The Fisher Eagles have the same wings as the preceding, but only the 

 upper half of their tarsi invested with feathers, the remainder being semi- 

 scutellated. They frequent the shores of rivers and of the sea, and feed 

 chiefly on fish. 



F. Ossifragus, F. alhicilla, and F. albicaudus, Gm. (The Ossi- 

 fragus and Pygargus). Form but one species, which in its first 

 years has a black bill; tail blackish, spotted with white, and the 

 plumage brownish, with a deep brown streak on the middle of each 

 feather, (Enl. 112 and 415; Naum. 14; the F. ossifragus,) and 

 which, when older, becomes of a uniform brownish grey, paler on 

 the head and neck, with an entirely white tail, and the bill of a pale 

 yellow. (Frisch. Ixx. ; Naum. 12 and 13— the F. alhicilla). % It 

 generally attacks fish, and is found in the whole north of the globe. 



F. leucocephalus, L. ; Enl. 411; Wilson IV. xxxvi., and VII., 

 Iv. 2. (The Bald Eagle). A uniform deep brown ; head and tail 



" A living specimen, however, was taken near Paris, in 1828. M. Temm. makes 

 an European species of the Aigh Bonnelli, Col. 288; but we have not got it in all its 

 states. 



Add the Griffard, Vaill. Afric. I. (F. armiger, Sh.);— the Malay Eagle, (F. ma- 

 laiensis, Reinw.) Col. 117; the Petit Aigle de Senegal, {F. Senegallus, Cuv.) similar 

 to the Spotted, or Little Eagle of Europe; the nostrils not so round, numerous small 

 grey bands underneath the tail of the young. — The Petit Aigledu Cap, (F. navioides, 

 Cuv.) variegated with brown fawn colour and blackish. 



t F.foscosus, Col. 32. 



X This change has been verified more than once in the menagerie of the Museum. 

 As to the Little Pvgargus, F. Albicaudus, it is merely the male of the great one, 

 F. albicilla. 



