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Accipiter ferox, N. C. ac.fc.Petrop. vol. xv. t. lo.p. 442. 



'HIS bird is very little inferior in fize to the former. The 

 bill is lead-colour: cere green : irides yellow : eyelids and 

 pupil blue : over the eyes are long, black, ftiff hairs : the 

 Opper parts are ferruginous brown : the crown and hind head 

 have a little mixture of white : the fore part of the neck is 

 ferruginous, with a mixture of 'White: the breafi: and belly white, 

 fpotted with chefniit : the quills are black on the upper fur- 

 face ; within brown and white; beneath white ; towards the end 

 grey : the wing-coverts are paler than the body, fpofted with 

 ferruginous forwards, and white behind : tail brown •, the fea- 

 thers on the pofterior fide 'white, fafciated with four bands of 

 deep brown : the rump is whitifh: legs white, thick, and rough: 

 claws crooked. 



This bird is faidto be remarkably fierce ; will not touch dead 

 animals j was found frequent near the • city of AJirachan, in the 

 winter of 1769. 



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FIERCE 



E. 



Description. 



Manner*. 



'Vultur albiulla, Lin./yfi.i. p. 123. N° 8. 

 L'Aigle a queue blanche, Brif. orn. i. p. 427. N° 5-. 

 Le grand Pygargue, Buf. eif. i. p. 99.— iV. ml. 411: 

 Pygargus, Raii.fyn. p. 7. N" 5. 

 Braun-fahle Adler, Frifcb. t. 70. 

 'White-tailed Eagle, Witt. orn. p. 61. 

 'Cinereous Eagle, Br. Zool. i. p. 170, t. r3» 



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CINEREOUS 

 E. 



CIZE of a Turkey : length two feet nine inches. Bill of a pale Description. 





yellow colour, ftrait at the bafe : cere and irides the fame : 

 fpace between the eyes bare, and of a blueifh colour : the head 



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