94 VOCIFEROUS EAGLE. 



top of some high tree, and contains two white eggs 

 of the size of those of a Turkey, but rounder. The 

 male and female perform the task of incubation in 

 turn. 



VOCIFEROUS EAGI/E. 



Falco Vocifer. F. fusco-ferrugineus, nigro undulatus, capite 



colln pectore caudaque albis. 

 Brown-ferruginous Eagle, undulated with black, with the 



head, neck, breast and tail white. 

 Le Vocifer. Vaill. ois, Afr. pi. 4. 



This, according to Monsieur Levaillant, its 

 discoverer, is one of the finest of the whole Aquiline 

 tribe, and is not only distinguished by the beauty 

 of its colours, but by the elegance of its shape. 

 It is equal in size to an Osprey*, (Orfraie.) The 

 fore parts of the body, and the tail, are white; the 

 remainder rufous brown intermixed with black; 

 but, to be more particular; the feathers of the 

 head and neck are white with brown edges, and 

 the scapular-feathers are of similar colour: those 

 of the breast have a few longitudinal dashes of 

 blackish brown: the rest of the plumage is brown- 

 ferruginous, undulated with black : the smaller 

 wing-coverts are of a paler cast, and the neighbour- 

 ing scapular-feathers are mixed with black, and 



* Monsieur Levaillant, I presume, means the Fako Halicetus, 

 but the Orfraie of the French is the Falco Ossifragus. 



