3o FALCON. 



4' Falco Offifragus, Liu. Syft. 1. p. 124. N' 4. 



■p Le grand Aigle de Mer, Brif. orn. i. p. 437. N° 9. 



L'Orfraie, Buf. oif. i. p. 112, t. 3. 



Le grand Aigle de Mer, PI, enl. 1 \ 2, the male. 



Orfraie ou Offifrague, PL enl. 415, the female. 



Halistus feu Offifraga, Rail Syn. p. 7, N° 3. 



Sea Eagle, or Ofprey, Will. orn. p. 59, t. 1. 



— Br. Zool. i. p. 167, t. 17, 



Am. Zool. N" 



Br. Muf. * Lev. Muf. 



Description. HT^^S fpecies is a trifle lefs in fize than the Golden Eagle: 

 the length is three feet four inches and a half. The bill is 

 of a blueifh horn-colour : cere luteous : under the chin the hairs 

 almoft as narrow as briftles : the upper parts are covered with- 

 ferruginous brown, the margins of the feathers darkeft : belly 

 whitifh, fpotted with ferruginous : the infides and tips of the 

 tail feathers are of a deep brown ; the outfides of fome are fer- 

 ruginous, of others blotched with white : legs yellow, feathered 

 a little below the knees with ferruginous feathers : claws deep 

 black, very large, and remarkably hooked. 



Linnaeus fays, that the interior webs of the tail feathers, 

 and the fhaft, are white j and that the female is of a dull fer- 

 ruginous colour. 



* The author means here to fignify the Britijh Mu/eum, which has been the 

 repofitory for every curious matter for feveral years paft, and among the reft, 

 not ill ftored with fpecimens in ornithology ; an account of which will be no- 

 ticed in this manner throughout this work. 



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