20 
8. 
GLAUCOUS 
E; 
DESCRIPTION. 
PLacks 
9: 
DESTRUCTIVE 
E. 
Dascrirrion. 
‘PLACE. 
BrgANe TiC) Oo ING 
Falco Glaucopis, Ind. Orn. i. p. 26. N° 25.—Merrem. Ic. Av. ii. p. 25. t. 7° 
Aigle de Gottingue, Daud. Orz. ii. p. 5¢. xxix. 
"T HE length of this fpecies is twenty-one inches and a quarter: 
the bill is glaucous: infide of the mouth and tongue rofe colour: 
irides yellowifh; cere the fame: the general colour of the plumage 
is brown, but the head and nape are of a yellowifh white, ftreaked 
with brown, and the forehead marked with crefcents of brown; and 
the breaft wholly of that colour: the thighs are fhort, covered with 
downy feathers, and the fhins half cloathed with yellowifh feathers : 
the quills are black: the tail reddifh brown above, dirty white 
beneath, croffed with fix black bands. 
Inhabits the mountain Dran/berg, near Gottingen, in Germany. 
Aigle Deftruteur, Dah Orn. ii, p. 60. XXxil. 
Grand Aigle de la Guiane, Mauduit Encyc. Meth. 
HIS isa large fpecies, being in length three feet two inches: the 
bill is pretty much curved, but chiefly fo at the end, and of a 
horn colour: the top and fides of the head are dufky grey; the 
feathers of the hind head are grey, very long, and of different lengths, 
forming a creft; the tip of the longeft grey: neck grey: the body 
is black, banded above with greyifh: the fhoulders grey and black 
mixed: breaft and belly greyifh white: quills black, reaching two 
thirds on the tail, which is alfo black mixed with grey on the upper 
part, but nearly white on the under, with a dufky bar at the tip: 
the fhins are covered with white feathers tranfverfely banded with 
black: toes naked yellow. 
The male is fmaller, and of more lively colours. 
Inhabits Guiana, and is a powerful fpecies, faid to prey on the floth, 
and other quadrupeds, as well as pheafants, 
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