*2 



FALCON. 



This fpecies is found at Pandicherry, in the Eaft Indies. It is 

 held as a facred bird, and worfhipped in confequence, by the na- 

 tives on the coaft of Malabar. 



22. 



BLACK-BACK- 

 ED E. 



Description. 



Black-backed Eagle, Brown's III. p. 4. t. 2; 



HT H I S is a large bird, faid to be of the fize of the Golden 

 Eagle. The bill is black : cere yellow : head, hind part of 

 the neck, belly, and wing coverts, are ferruginous : the fore part 

 of the neck, breaft, back, and quills, are black : bafe of the tail,. 

 to the middle, is white; the end half black : legs yellow, covered 

 to the toes with ferruginous feathers : claws black. 

 From whence it came, unknown. 



WHITE- 

 CROWNED E. 



Description. 



Aquila leucorypha, Pallas Voy. 2. p. 4.54. N° 5. 



HP HE fize is equal to an OJprey, and not much unlike that 

 bird -, but the limbs are longer ; it expands fix feet, and 

 weighs nearly fix pounds. The bill is ftrait at the bafe : cere of a 

 livid afh-colour: irides grey brown, with a black outer circle: the 

 head is grey brown, with a triangular white fpot on the crown : 

 throat white : fides of the head darker than the reft (as in the 

 Ofprey) : the upper part of the body is of a clouded brown co- 

 lour ; the parts beneath, the fame, but paler: fecond coverts, 

 have grey margins : quills very dark : tail longifh, even at the 

 end, black at the tip, and white beneath ; fome of the fide- 

 feathers are dotted within with white: the legs are pale; one- 

 third 



