216 BIRDS. 
F. nevius and F. maculatus, Gm.; Naum. pl. 10 and 11; dq. 
melanaetos, Savig. Eg. Ois. pl. 1, and pl. 2, f. 1. (The Smaller or 
Spotted Eagle). A third less than the two others; tarsi more slender ; 
plumage brown; tail blackish, with paler bands; pale fawn coloured 
spots form a band on the small coverts; one at the tips of the large 
ones which mounts to the scapulars, and one at the tips of the se- 
condary quills. The superior part of the wing is sprinkled with 
fawn colour. The old birds become all brown. This species is 
common in the Appennines, and other mountains of the south of 
Europe; but is rarely seen in the north: it attacks the weaker ani- 
mals only. It has been found sufficiently docile to be employed 
in falconry, but is said to fly from and be vanquished by the Spar- 
row-hawk. 
It has been thought proper to place among the Eagles a bird of 
Eastern Europe—falco pennatus, Gm.; Col. 33; Briss., Suppl. 
pl. 1, which scarcely resembles them in any thing except the plumed 
tarsi and pointed feathers of the vertex, but which is not as large as 
the Buzzard, and has a bill almost as much curved; its plumage is 
fawn coloured spotted with brown; its feet blue. Very rare in 
France and Germany.* 
New Holland produces Eagles similar in form to those of Europe, 
the tail excepted, which is cuneiform (etagée).+ 
Hatratus, Savig.—Tue Fisuer Eacrs, Cuv. 
The Fisher Eagles have the same wings as the preceding, but only the 
upper half of their tarsi invested with feathers, the remainder being semi- 
scutellated. They frequent the shores of rivers and of the sea, and feed 
chiefly on fish. 
F. Ossifragus, F. albicilla, and F. albicaudus, Gm. (The Ossi- 
fragus and Pygargus). Form but one species, which in its first 
years has a black bill; tail blackish, spotted with white, and the 
plumage brownish, with a deep brown streak on the middle of each 
feather, (Enl. 112 and 415; Naum. 14; the F. ossifragus,) and 
which, when older, becomes of a uniform brownish grey, paler on 
the head and neck, with an entirely white tail, and the bill of a pale 
yellow. (Frisch. Ixx.; Naum. 12 and 13—the F. albicilla).¢ It 
generally attacks fish, and is found in the whole north of the globe. 
F, leucocephalus, L.; Enl. 411; Wilson IV. xxxvi., and VII., 
lv. 2. (The Bald Eagle). A uniform deep brown; head and tail 
* A living specimen, however, was taken near Paris, in 1828. M.Temm. makes 
an European species of the 4igle Bonnelli, Col. 288; but we have not got it in all its 
states. 
Add the Griffard, Vaill. Afric. I. (F. armiger, Sh.);:—the Malay Eagle, (F. ma- 
laiensis, Reinw.) Col. 117; the Petit Aigle de Senegal, (I. Senegallus, Cuv.) similar 
to the Spotted, or Little Eagle of Europe; the nostrils not so round, numerous small 
grey bands underneath the tail of the young.—The Petié Aigle du Cap, (F. nevioides, 
Cuy.) variegated with brown fawn colour and blackish. 
Ge ae Feacases, Col. 32. 
t This change has been verified more than once in the menagerie of the Museum. 
As to the Little Pygargus, F. Albicaudus, it is merely the male of the great one, 
F. albicilla, 
