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GOLDEN AND CI NEREO US E AGLE S. 



■white, interior barred with the fame: tail of the fame color with the 

 bacli, and barred with white j the bars do not reach the fhafts, and, like 

 thofe in the Iceland Falcon, oppofe the dark bars on the adverfe fide i. 

 leo-s blueifh. L-ength two k&t two inches. 



■ This fine fpecies inhabits Hudfmt's Bay : is new,, and to be placed, 

 in p. 202. 



GOLDEN Is to be placed among the Jmeriean birds, having been difcovered to 



EAGLE. be an inhabitant oiUudJon's Bay. 



Julius FirmkuS', a celebrated writer in aftrology, who dedicated his 

 books to Mav or tins Lollianus, conful in 354, affirms, that whofoever- 

 were born under the influence of Ma'cury and Firgo, would be ftrong 

 and induftrious, and be well flcilied in breeding fine horfes, and in. 

 trainino- Hawks and Falcons, and other birds ufeful in bird-catching,^ 

 &c. -By this it appears, that adual falconry was in ufe long before the 

 time I imagined. 



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The Erne, or Cinereous Eagle, the Vtiltur Alhicilla of Lin-- 

 N^us, is the firft year wholly dulky, even to the bill, cere, and taiL, 

 In the fecond year the cinereous color commences^ teffelated with 

 black; the tail becomes white ; and the end of its feathers for fome 

 time tipped with black. 



It is very eafily made tame : will attach itfelf to its mailer, diftinr- 

 guifh him from others, and receive him with many marks of endear- 

 ment. When hungry, repeats the founds, tack tack; and when fatisfied 

 with food exprefTes its content, by a repetition of the fame note. Is par- 

 ticularly fond of fifli : is a fluggifli and cowardly fpecies, and will be 

 put to flight even by the Turkies. — Mr. Oedman, 



'^I4» The Golden Eagle has been taken, twenty-five years ago, in 



Scania, gf a fnowy whitenefs > it is flill alive. — Profeffor Retzius, 



The 



