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that in its moft towering flights, far out of human obfervation, 

 it can difcern the fmalleft thing upon the ground or in the water 

 even the minuteft of the finny race, or the youngeft leverets in 

 their feats ; darting upon its prey with the celerity of an arrow. 

 It builds in the mod retired, inacceffible places, and lays four 

 eggs. 



2. We have . the Bald Buzzard (b}, fo called from its yellowifh- 

 white crown, which at a diflance looks like baldnefs, about the 

 alpine mofles ; where it is known to the fhepherds and many of 

 the common people by the name of the Bayard-Eagle. It is, in- 

 deed, fo like an eagle, that it is mentioned as one by an antient 

 and curious naturalift under the name of Halyztus (c). The eyes 

 are not hollow as in the eagle's, but prominent j the iris of a 

 bright fparkling yellow. The back and wings are of a dark 

 brown ; the under part of the body white ; the legs and feet blue, 

 from which it had the name of Cyanopoda given it by Gefner (d) t 

 i. e. the Blue-legged Falcon. It lives upon water-fowl, and upon 

 fifties. It breeds annually on the mofles near Greenfy-lake, among 

 the tall herbage andjunci. It lays four eggs, white, of an ellip- 

 tic fhape. 



3. We have the Glead, or Swallow-tail' d Falcon (e) ; the only one 

 hitherto known with that remarkable diftinclion, in the alpine, 



(b) Balbufardus. Turn. Av. apud GESN. Will. Orn. p. 37. t. 6. Raj. Av. 16. n. 3. Falco 

 pedibus ceraque cxruleis; corpore fupra fufco, capite albo. Linn. Faun. Succ. p. 19. 

 n. 57. 



(c) Aldr. Orn. 1. 2. c. 3. 



(d) Gefn. Av. 74. 



(t) Milvus. Charlet. Av. p. 72. n. 14. Will. Orn. p. 41. t. 6. Raj. Av. p. 17. n. 6. 

 Falco cera flava ; cauda forcipata, corpore ferrugeneo, capite albidiorc. Linn. Faun-. Suec. 

 p. 19. n. 59. 



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