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ends ; the outer ones, on each side, of an ash colour ; the legs cover- 

 ed with feathers of a reddish brown. 



Tho bald eagle : brown ; the head, neck, and tail feathers white ; 

 the feathers of the upper part of the leg brown. 



The white eagle : the whole white. 



The rough-footed eagle : of a dirty brown ; spotted under the 

 wings, and on the legs, with white ; the feathers of the tail white at 

 the beginning and the point ; the leg feathers dirty brown, spotted with 

 white. 



The white -tailed eagle: dirty brown; head white; stems of the 

 feathers black ; the rump inclining to black ; the tail feathers, the 

 first half black, the end half white ; legs naked. 



The erne : a dirty iron colour above, an iron mixed with black 

 below ; the head and neck ash, mixed with chesnut ; the points of 

 the wings blackish ; the tail feathers white ; the legs naked. 



The black eagle: blackish; the head and upper neck mixed with 

 red ; the tail feathers, the first half white, speckled with black ; the 

 other half, blackish ; the leg feathers dirty white. 



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

 white, with iron-coloured spots ; the covert feathers of the tail whitish ; 

 the tail feathers black at the extremity ; the upper part of the leg 

 feathers of an iron brown. 



The osprey: brown above, white- below; the back of the head 

 white ; the outward tail feathers, on the inner side, streaked with 

 white ; legs naked. 



The jean le blanc: above, brownish grey; below, white, spotted 

 with tawny brown; the tail feathers, on the outside and at the ex- 

 tremity, brown; on the inside, white, streaked with brown; legs 

 naked. 



The eagle of Brasil : blackish brown ; ash colour mixed in the 

 wings; tail feathers white; legs naked. 



The Oroonoko eagle : with a topping above, blackish brown : be- 

 low, white, spotted with black ; upper neck yellow ; tail feathers 

 brown, with white circles ; leg feathers white spotted with black. 



The crowned African eagle, with a topping ; the tail of an ash co- 

 lour, streaked on the upper side with black. 



The eagle of Pondicherry : chesnut colour ; the six outward tail 

 feathers black one half. 



CHAPTER III. 



THE CONDOR OP AMERICA. 



WE might now come to speak of the vulture kind, as they hold the 

 next rank to the eagle ; but we are interrupted in our method, by the 

 consideration of an enormous bird, whose place is not yet ascertained , 

 as naturalists are in doubt whether to refer it to the eagle tribe, or to 

 that of the vulture. Its great strength, force, and vivacity, migh) 



