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iharp. The luxury of thefe, for the moil part, is to kill their own 

 prey, and eat it while frefh. — Both this and the Vulture will often 

 take in as much food as will laft for many days without a 

 frefh fupply; and nature has likewife enabled it to bear a 

 very long abftinence in turn. — Their food is not always 

 flelh; many of the fpecies eat fifh, and others are content 

 with fnakes and reptiles, as will be noted in it's place. — 

 They are apt to vary much in the plumage, according to age ; 

 which has been the occafion of enumerating more fpecies 

 than really exift. — It is obferved, that every climate is fur- 

 nifhed with them, not being confined, like the Vulture, to the 

 warmer regions. — I cannot find that the Falcon tribe ever 

 unites into companies : and, except in breeding-time, feldom 

 two are feen together. The method taken in arranging thefe, 

 will be chiefly according to their fizes *, beginning at the largelt, 

 and ending with the leaft ; as Linnaus's, method of feparating 

 them from each other by the colour of the cere, mufl frequently 

 deceive, being known to vary in birds of the fame fpecies. 



*7 



Falco coronatus, Lin. Syfi. I. p. 124. N° i. 

 L'Aigle hupe d'Afrique, Brif. orn. i. p. 448. N° 14. 

 Crowned Eagle, Edw. iii. t, 224. 



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CROWNED 

 EAGLE. 



^PHIS bird is one third lefs in fize than the large Eagles. The Description,; 



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bill and cere are ferruginous : the irides orange red t fore 

 part of the head, and round the eyes, whitilh : parts above 



Not to a nicety in refpett to their gradation by length. 



E a / brownj 



