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The Mack eagles black! fh ; head and upper part of the neck mixed 

 ^ith red ; tail-feathers, the firft half while, fpcckled with black, the 

 other half blackifli ; leg-feathers dirty whice i thouglit to be only a va- 

 riety of the common brown eagle. 



The fea eagle, inclining to white, mixed with iron brown ; belly 

 white, with iron coloured fpots ; covert feathers of the tail whitiih ; tail- 

 feathers black at the extremity ; the upper part of the leg-feathers iron 

 brown. 



The ojprey, brown above; white below ; back of the head white; 

 outward tail-feathers, on the inner fide, ftreaked with white; legs naked. 



The J(?<2« le blanc : above, brownifti grey; below, white, fpotted 

 with tawney brown; tail-feathers on their outfide and extremity brown; 

 infide, white, ftreaked with brown; legs naked. 



The eagle of Brqftl, blackilh brown j afli colour, finixed in the wings i 

 tail-feathers white; legs naked. 



The Oroonoko eagle: with a topping, above, blackifli brown j below,' 

 white, fpotted with black ; upper neck yellow ; tail-feathers brown, with 

 white circles ; leg-feathers white, fpotted with black. 



The crowned African eagle, with a topping ; the tail of an afli colour, 

 ftreaked on the upper fide with black. 



The eagle cf Pondicherry r chefnut colour; the fix outward tail-feathers 

 black one half. Said to be the moft highly ornamented bird of the 

 kind, in regard to mixture of colours. 



THE VULTURE, and its AFFINITIES. 



VULTURES are diftinguiftied by the nakednefs of their heads 

 and necks, which are only covered with a very flight down, or a 

 few fcattered hairs. Their eyes are prominent. . Claws fliorter, lefs 

 hooked than the eagle's. The infide of the wing covered with thick 

 down, diff^erent from all other birds of prey. Their attitude and their 

 flight heavy. 



The Golden Vulture feems foremoft of the kind* From the beak to 

 the tail, is four feet and a half; to the claws forty-^ve inches. The up- 

 per mandible nearly feven inches long; the tail twenty-feven. Neck, 



breaft 



