ACCIPITRES. 220 
New Holland produces Eagles similar in form to those of 
‘Europe, the tail excepted, which is cuneiform (etagée).(1) 
Hatiztus, Savig.—The Fisuer Eacues, Cuv. 
The Fisner 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, whichat first has 
a black beak; 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 beak 
of a pale yellow. (Frisch, xx; Naum. 12 and 13—the / albi- 
cilla.)(2) It generally attacks fish, and is found in the whole 
north of the globe. 
F. leucocephalus, L.; Eni. 4113; Wilson, 1V, xxxvi, and VIL, 
lv, 2. (The Bald Eagle.) A uniform deep brown; head and 
tail white; beak yellowish, and almost as large as the Common 
Eagle of Europe. It inhabits North America, and is continually 
occupied in fishing. It appears occasionally in the north of 
Europe. When young, the head and body are of a cinereous 
brown. It must not be confounded, however, with the old 
White-Headed Pygargus. 
Ff, ponticerianus, Gm.;3 Enl. 416; Vieillot, Gal. 10. (The 
* Garuda.) ‘Less than a Kite; of a fine lively chesnut red ; head, 
neck and breast, white, or pearl grey. It is from India, and is 
the Garuda Eagle, which, in the religion of the Bramins, is 
sacred to Vishnu.(3) 
makes an European species of the Aigle 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. 
malaiensis, Reinw.) Col. 117;—the Petit Migle de Senegal, (F. Senegallus, Cuy.) 
similar to the Spotted, or Little Eagle of Europe; the nostrils not so round, nume- 
rous small, grey bands underneath the tail of the young.—The Petit Aigle du Cap, 
(F. nevioides, Cuv.) variegated with brown fawn colour and blackish. 
(1) F. fuscosus, Col. 32. 
(2) This change has been verified more than once in the menagerie of the 
museum. As to the Little Pygargus, /. Albicaudus; it is merely the male of the 
great one, F. albicilla. 
(8) Here should come the Blagre, Vaill. Afric. 5, (Fale. blagrus, Sh.) which is pro- 
bably the F. leucogaster, Lath. or Aigle oceanique, Col. 49;—the vocifer, Vaill. Af. 4 
(F. vocifer, Sh.;—the Aigle de Macé of Bengal, (F. macez, Cuy.) Col. 8 and 223;—the 
