74 BLACK EAGLE. 



enough to fly, the shepherds fasten him to the eyry, 

 in order that the parent birds may supply him so 

 much the longer with food; that three or four 

 Eagle's nests were sufficient to furnish a splendid 

 table throughout the year ; and that, far from 

 murmuring at the ravages of Eagles, he thought 

 himself very happy in being situated in their 

 neighbourhood, and reckoned every eyry as a kind 

 of annual rent. 



Var. ? 



BLACK EAGLE. 



Falco Melanaetus. F. cera lutea, pedibus semilanatis, corpore 



jierugineo-nigricante, striis flavis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Blackish-ferruginous Eagle with yellow streaks, half-feathered 



legs, and luteous cere. 

 Black Eagle. Lath, synops. 



Length two feet ten inches: general colour 

 blackish, the head and upper part of the neck 

 mixed with rufous : lower half of the tail white with 

 blackish spots ; the end-part blackish : bill horn- 

 colour; legs covered with dusky-white feathers: 

 feet yellow. Native of Europe. Perhaps a sexual 

 difference of the Ring-tailed Eagle. It is to be 

 observed that this is the Black Eagle of AVillughby, 

 and that the Ring-tailed Eagle is the Black Eagle 

 of Pennant. 



