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PLATE II. 



THE BLACK-BACKED EAGLE. 



GENUS FALCO, LIN. SYST. 1 24. FALCON, PEN. GEN. BIRDS. 2, 



SIZE, of the Golden Eagle. 



BILL, black. CERE, yellow. 



HEAD, hind part of the NECK, belly, and coverts of 



the WINGS, ferruginous; under fide of the 



NECK, BACK, and QUILL FEATHERS, black. 



TAIL, the half next to the root white; the reft, black. 



LEGS, covered to the feet with ferruginous feathers. 



TOES, yellow, claws, black. 



PLACE, unknown. 



From the colleélion of drawings of the late 

 TAYLOR WHITE, Efq. The bird under the 

 Eagle's foot is the fire bird, froin the river 

 GAMBIA, on the Coaft of africa, and is in the 

 pofleflion of marmaduke tunstall, Efq. 



