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11. FALCON, Gen, Birds 11. 



S^.A.SeaEagle. £>: Zool. i. N° ^^. 



Fako Offifragus, i/». Sj/I. 124. — Latham, i. 30. — PI. Enl, 12. 415. 



Grey Eagle, Lww/on, 137. 



Land Oern, Leems, 230. 



L'Orfraie, De Buffon, i. 112. pi. 3. — Lev. Mus. 



'ARIES a little from the Britijh fpecies, and is much fuperior 

 in fize. The length three feet three inches ; of wing, twenty- 

 five inches. 



Feathers on head, neck, and back, brown, edged with dirty white : 

 chin white : breaft and belly brown, fpotted with white : coverts of 

 wings brown, clouded j .primaries black : tail dufky i the middle 

 mottled with white : legs feathered half down. 

 »i,A.«E. Very common in the northern parts of America, and endures its 



fevereft winters, even as high as Newfoundland. Thefe birds prey on 

 fea fowls, as well as land, and on young Seals, which they feize 

 floating, and carry out of the water. 



Eagles, and all forts of birds of prey, abound in America, where 

 fuch quantity of game is found. Multitudes are always feen below 

 the fails of Niagara, invited by the carcafes of Deer, Bears, and 

 other animals, which are fo frequently hurried down in attempting 

 to crofs the river above this ftupendous cataraft. 



This fpecies is very frequent in Kamtfchatka ; and is found during 

 fummer even on the Arftic coaft : is very common in Ruffia and Si- 

 Mria; nor is it more rare about the Co/pan fea, where they breed 

 ^n the loftieft trees* " - 



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