Class II. 



SEA EAGLE. 



205 



rapine they commit in cultivated parts cannot 

 be computed. He adds, that the egg is not 

 colored, as is usually asserted, with irregular 

 marks of a deeper tint. J. L. 



FalcoOssifragus.F. ceraluteape- 

 dibusque semilanatis, corpore 

 ferrugineo, rectricibus latere 

 interiorealbis. Lath. ind. orn. 

 12. id. Syn. i. 30. id. Sup.i.Q. 



Bein-brecher, Ossifraga, Meer- 

 adler, Fisch-arn, Haliseetos. 

 Gesner av. 201. 203. 



Halisetos. Turneri. 



Auguista barbata, Ossifraga. 

 Aldr. av. i. 118. 



Haliseetos. Plinii lib. 10. c. 3. 



Sih. hist. Scot. 14. 



Sea eagle, or osprey. Wil. orn. 

 59. 



Raii syn. av. 7- 



Sea eagle. Dales Harwich^ 



396. 

 Martins hist. West, isles 70. 

 Le grand aigle de mer, Bris- 



son av. i. 437- 

 Falco Ossifragus. Gm. Lin. 



255. 

 Gaase orn. Brunnich, 13- 

 L'Orfraie. Hist, d'ois. i. 112. 



Pl.Enl. 112.415, 

 Sea eagle. Br. Zool. 63. Arcto 



Zool. i. 224. 



X HIS species is found in Ireland, and several 

 parts of Great Britain ; the specimen we took 

 our description from, was shot in the county of 

 Galway : Mr. TVillughhy tells us there was an 

 aery of them in TVhinfield-pai^lx, Westmoreland ; 

 and the eagle soaring in the air, with a cat in its 

 talons, which Barloxv drew from the very fact 

 which he saw in Scotland* is of this kind. The 



3. Sea 

 Eagle, 



* Mr. Walpoles catalogue of engravers, p. 49. 



