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with a broad dusky bar across the wing-coverts, 

 and two or three across the tail: quill-feathers 

 dusky : bill black : thighs clothed with long fea- 

 thers, feet and cere yellow : the whole under part 

 of the bird is yellowish buff-colour, and its habit 

 or general shape seems to resemble that of the 

 larger Falcons. In another drawing which Mr. 

 Latham observed in a collection on sale, was a 

 figure which seemed to be the same bird with some 

 variations; the head being furnished with a va- 

 riegated crest, and the under parts with black 

 markings. 



FRENCH EAGLE. 



Falco Gallicus. F. rostro cinereo, pedibus nudis flavicantibtcs, 



corpore griseo-fusco, subtus fmarij albido, maculis rvfescente- 



Juscis. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Eagle with cinereous bill, naked yellowish legs, and grey-brown 



body, (in the male white beneath, with rufous-bxown 



spots.) 

 Jean Le Blanc. Buff. ois. Lath. syn. PI. Enl. 4 J 3. 



This, says Mr. Latham, does not fall far short 

 of the Black Eagle, its length being two feet one 

 inch. The colour of the bill is cinereous; the 

 irides yellow ; the parts above grey- brown; beneath 

 white, spotted with rufous brown : the outsides 

 and tips of the tail-feathers are brown, within white, 

 transversly streaked with brown : legs yellowish, 

 naked ; claws cinereous. This bird is common in 



