12 BIRDS. 



Her eggs feldom exceed two in the larger fpecies^ and three in the 

 fmallcft. Are hatching about thirty days ; frequently one egg is addled. 

 It is afferted, that when the young are fonnewhat grown, the mother kills 

 the mofl: feeble or the' mod voracious. They are firft white, then yel- 

 Jow; at laft light brown. Age, hunger, captivity, difeafes, make 

 them whiter. Is faid to live above an hundred years i and to die, not 

 of old age, but from the beak turning inward on the under mandible, 

 and thus preventing their taking food. Drinks but feldom, perhaps,^ at 

 liberty not at all, as the blood of his prey ferves to quench his third. 



The Sea-Eagle and the Ofprey live chiefly upon fifh. Build their 

 nefts on the fea-fliore, by the fides of rivers, on the ground among reeds* 

 Often lay three or four eggs, rather lefs than thofe of a hen. They catch 

 their prey, by darting down upon them. 



The Bald-Eagle of North Carolina has peculiar habits. When the 

 eaglets are juft covered with down, and a fort of v;hite vv^ooUy feathers, 

 the female eagle lays again. Thefe eggs are hatched by the warmth of 

 the recent young, whereby the flight of one brood makes room for its 

 juft hatched fucceffors. Thefe birds fly very heavily. They often at- 

 tend a kind of fifhing-hawk, which they ftrip of its prey. Qenerally 

 alfo attend fowlers in the winter, and feize birds that are wounded. 



M. Buflfbn confiders, as genuine eagles, only the golden eagle firll 

 defcribed, the common eagle, and the little eagle j thereby feparating 

 thofe which refide entirely on land, from thofe which prey in waters. 



The common eagle is brown, head and upper part of the neck in- 

 clining to red J tail-feathers white, blackening at the ends; outer ones, 

 on each fide, alh-coloured ; legs covered with feathers of a reddiih 

 brown. 



Tht bald eaght brown; head, neck and tail-feathers white j thofe of 

 . the upper part of the leg brown. 



The white eagle, the v/hole white. 



The rough-footed eagle, dirty brown j fpotted under the wings, and 

 on the legs, with white; the tail-feathers white at the beginning and 

 point; leg-feathers dirty brown, fpotted with white. 



The white-tailed eagle, dirty brown ; head white ; ftcms of the fea- 

 thers black; rump inclining to black; tail-feathers, firft half black, 

 the end half white ; legs naked. 



The erne, dirty iron colour above, iron mixed with black below ; 

 head and neck afh, mixed with chefnut; points of the wings blickilh; 



tail-feathers white; legs naked. 



The 



