FALCON, n 



Cinereous Eagle, G^«.5y«. I. p. 33. N" 8. — Jr^l. Zool. ii. p. 21^. ?. 



Vultur albicilla, 5ra«. Orn. N" n.—MuUer, N<>58.— F«a». Groenl. p. 53. CINEREOUS E. 



nPHIS fpecies is very common on the continent oi Europe; the 

 fouthern parts of Riiffia, particularly about the JVoIga ; in 

 Szoeden and Denmark ; alfo in Iceland and La-pmark. In Greenland 

 it is found, the whole year, among the iflands and rocks, from 

 which laft it darts on the feveral diving birds the moment of their 

 rife to the furface of the water, the place of which it is enabled to 

 afcertain by the bubbles : attempts now and then to prey on a live 

 Seal, when, having fixed the talons too faft to be difentangled, the 

 Seal draws the Eagle under water, to its deftruftion : feeds alfo or 

 filh, efpecially xhe Lump-fijh, and a fort of Trout. In a neft of one 

 of thefe birds, near Kefwick, in Cumberland, was found a Grey or 

 Hulfew at er Trout, of above twelve pounds weight. Dr. Heyjham, 

 who informed me of this, added to the obfervation, that he ob- 

 tained the bird alive, and had kept it above ten years, at the time 

 of his communicating to me the account j and that it was either 

 fix or feven years before the tail became white. 



Bladk-cheekedE, G^«.5y». i. p. ig6. N" lo.'^^rSl.Zool. ii. 0.106. No>88. »*. 



BLACK-CHEEK. 



ED E 

 ClZE of the Ring-tail Eagle. Bill dufky and blue; cere yel- 

 low : head, neck, and breaft, deep afh-colour : each cheek 

 marked with a broad black bar, paffing from the corner of the 

 mouth beyond the eyes : back, belly, wings, and tail, black : legs 

 yellow, feathered below the knees. 



Inhabit North Araerica, Plass* 



C 2 Jean 



