24 FALCONID^. 



wing from the anterior joint twenty-three and a half 

 inches ; the fourth and fifth quill feathers nearly equal 

 in length, but the fifth rather the longest in the wing. 

 The wings when closed reach to the end of the tail. 



Willughby in his Ornithology has accurately described 

 this species at page 63, under the name of the Morphno 

 congener of Aldrovandus, and adds, that " this bird took 

 the name of Morphnos from the spots of the feathers, 

 whence also it may inLatine not unfitly be called nfevia" 



The young bird is the Falco ncemus and maculatus of 

 Gmelin. 



The vignette represents a mode of shooting an Eagle 

 from a pit. 



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