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This species attacks fish at all times_, and is found 

 all over the northern parts of the globe. 



The Bald Eagle, Lath. (F. leucocephalus, Lin. Enl. 411. 

 Wilson, iv. t. 36.) 



Uniformly deep brown, with white head and tail, and 

 yellowish beak, nearly as large as our common eagle. 

 Lives in South America, and preys on fish. It seems 

 that it comes sometimes into Northern Europe. When 

 young, it has the body and head ashy brown, but 

 it ought not to be confounded with the old sea-eagle 

 with a whitish head. 



Caleb's Hawk, (H. Calei, Vigors. Lin. Trans, xv.) 



Reddish brown, variegated with black; quills ash- 

 coloured, black banded ; pale tipt. New Holland. 

 Length twenty-three inches. 



Whistling Hawk. H. canorus. Vigors. 1. c. xv. 

 Above ferruginous brown : wing coverts and quills 

 fuscous brown ; beneath white, varied with ferrugi- 

 nous. Length twenty-one inches. New Holland; 

 perhaps, the young of F. Nova Zelandice, Vigors. 



Piscivorous Eagle, Lath. F. vocifer, Daud. Vail. 



O. A.t. 4. 

 Rusty brown, streaked with black ; head, neck, 

 breast and scapulars white, brown edged ; tail white ; 

 quills black, outer web brown banded; belly and 

 thighs rufous. Size of the osprey. Africa. 



Crying Eagle. F. axillaris and F. vociferus. 

 Ash-grey ; beneath white ; smaller and larger wing 

 coverts white ; feet yellow. India and Africa. Size 

 of a wood-pigeon. 



