BLACK EAGLE. 



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5aZW,i. N''43. ^ 87. Black Eagls, 



Falco Fulvus, Lin. Syfl. iz!^,— Latham, i. 32, N" 6. 



White-tailed Eagle, Edtji). i. i. — Lev, Mus. 



L'Aigle commun, De Buffbn, i. i6, — PL Enl. 409.— Lev. Mus. 



^T^ H E whole plumage is of a duflcy-brown : the breaft marked with 

 triangular fpots of white \ in which it varies from the Britijb 

 kind : the tail white, tipt with black ; but in young birds dufky, 

 blotched with white : legs covered to the toes with foft ruft-colored 

 feathers : vent feathers of the fame color. 



Inhabits Hudfon's Bay, and northern Europe as far as Drontheim *. Place. 



Is found on the highefl rocks of the Uralian chain, where it is 

 not covered with wood f ; but is moft frequent on the Sibirian, 

 ■where it makes its neft on the loftieft rocks. It is rather inferior in 

 fize to the former ; but is a generous, fpirited, and docile bird. The 

 independent 'Tartars train it for the chace of Hares, Foxes, Ante- 

 lopes, and even Wolves. The ufe is of confiderable antiquity j for 

 Mareo Poloy the great traveller of 12.69, obferved and admired the 

 diverfion of the great Cham of Tartary ; who had feveral Eagles, 

 which were applied to the fame purpofes as they are at prefent J. I 

 muft add, that the Tartars efteem the feathers of the tail as the Befi 

 they have for pluming their arrows. 



The Kalmucs ufe, befides this fpecies of Eagle, that which the 

 French call Jean le Blanc ||, and alfo the Lanner -, all which breed 

 among them : but people of rank, who are curious in their Falcons^, 

 procure from the Bajchkirians the Gyrfalcon and the Peregrine, 

 which inhabit the lofty mountains of the country § . 



• Efpecially in the winter, Leems, 233. f Dr. Pallas, t M. PoJo,in Pur^ 



thas, iii. 85. in Bergeron. 74. || De Buffbn. 



§ Extrads, ill. ■^o^. A name by which I quote an abridgement of- the travels 

 cf Pallas, Gmelin, LnpECHrN, and others, publiftied by the Societe Typo- 

 GRAPHiQUE, ^i Berne, under the title of Histoire des Decouvirtes, faites par 

 divers favans vcyageurs dans plufieurs contrees de la Ruffle et de la Per/e, 4 vols. 8vOs 



C c 2 F, With 



