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VOL. IL • 

 CLASS IL BIRDS. 

 D I V. I. LAND B I R D S. 



TH E Fake Melanaetos, and the F. Fulvus of Linnaeus, or my 195. 



Black Eagle, are the fame ; the F. fulvus being only the young 

 of the firft. It is a fcarce Ipecies in Sweden. — Mr. Qedman. 



The OspREY returns into 6'w£'t/if» later than the Kite. Vlx. Oedman 199, 



flings hew light on the hiftory of this bird : he fays that it breeds on 

 the tops of the higheft trees, and makes its neft with wonderful art, of 

 the twigs of the fir tree, and lines the bottom with polypodies. It lays 

 three eggs, of the fize of thofe of a Hen, marbled with ruft-color. It 

 brings fifh and ferpents to feed its young ; and even eels of a vafl fize : 

 this makes its neft very foetid. It does not prey on birds, but on fifli 

 only. It defends its neft with great Ipirit. 



F. with a very Iharp bill, furnifhed with a large and pointed procefs streaked 

 in the upper mandible: cere yellowifh: head, front of the neck, breaft, falcon. 



and belly, white ; each feather marked along the fhaft with a ftreak of 

 brown ; the narroweft are on the head : back and coverts of the wings 

 of a dirty blueifh afti-color ; edges of the feathers whitifli, and many of 

 them tipt with the fame : primaries dufky j exterior webs blotched v/ith 



I white. 



