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30. 
BLAGRE 
E. 
DeEscRipPT10ON. 
Piacr, 
31. 
AMERICAN 
: B. 
Dyscaiprion. 
FAL Je 10. ANe i 
or three white egos, bigger than thofe of a turkey. By fome it is 
called the Crying Eagle, as it flies high, and frequently utters loud 
cries, and may be heard far off; is very watchful, and difficult to 
fhoot, and it has been known that to obtain one, a fportfman has 
been obliged to remain concealed for three days under a turf covering, 
before he could obtain a fhot. It feems to be a variety of the Pon- 
dicherry Eagle. 
‘Le Blagre, Lewaill. Oi/. i. p. 23. pl. 5. 
Aigle Blagre, Daudin. Orn. il. p. 70. Xxxvil. 
IZE and habit of our O/prey: the head, neck, and parts beneath, 
are glofly white, but the top of the head, and hind part of the 
neck incline to brown: leffer wing coverts and tail pale grey brown,. 
and the end of the laft white: the great quills are dufky: black ;. 
fecondaries are outwardly like the reft of the wing: the feathers for 
the moft part very rigid: bill brownifh: iris deep brown: legs. 
yellow ; claws black. 
This fpecies is found in the dry internal parts of the Cape of Good 
Hope, but only on the borders of rivers, where it frequents for the 
fake of the fifh, which it takes in manner of the O/prey, by plunging 
in after them; its fight feems very piercing, as it will frequently 
deicend at once, from a height in the air where itis fcarcely vifible,. 
into the water after its prey. 
F. borealis, End. Orn. 1. p. 25. 50. 
Falco aquilinus, cauda ferraginea, Great Eagle Hawk.—Bartram Trav. p. 286. 
American Buzzard, Ger. Syn. i. p. 506 ; 
HE iris of this bird is brownifh yellow: cere and legs yellow: 
thighs of a fulphur colour. Ic is called i Georgia, the great 
Red-tailed Hawk; is faid not to be very common; is much on the 
‘wing, and yery thy, therefore very difficult to be thot. . 
F. apivorss, 
