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Chillingham Park, the seat of the Earl of TankErviLLe; 
and two more in the winter of the following year, and both 
of these were in the state indicating immaturity. They ap- 
pear to have resorted to this place from a facility of obtaiming 
food, which the weak and fallen deer in a hard season libe- 
rally present. . 
In their native districts, they are generally seen near the 
sea-shores, or the precipices skirting the margins of inland 
lakes, as their favourite food consists of fish, which they 
pounce upon whilst swimming near the surface of the water. 
Aquatic birds also become a frequent prey, as well as fawns 
and roe-bucks.—They generally breed in the most inacces- 
sible cliffs, and lay but one, or at most two eges, entirely 
white, and nearly the size of those of a goose. In my col- 
lection, is an egg laid by a bird of this species, after having 
been kept in a state of confinement for upwards of twenty 
years. ‘The Cinereous Eagle possesses astonishing capability 
of enduring the cravings of hunger; and instances are on re- 
cord where it has shewn undiminished vigour, after fasting for 
four or five weeks. I am acquainted with an instance, in 
which the bird was permitted, through the inattention of its 
keeper, to be without food for several weeks, till its suffer- 
ings were so severe as to excite it to gnaw the flesh from the 
pinions of its own wings. 
The figure on PLate 3. represents an adult female of this 
species, in about two-fifths of the natural size. 
The fabric of this bird is strong and powerful, but not so 
compact as that of the Golden Eagle, neither has it so 
much alertness of ‘aspect as that species. Biull large, 
straight towards the base, colour straw-yellow. Cere 
wine-yellow. From the base of the bill to the eyes is a 
species of bluish-coloured skin, thinly covered with black 
hairs. Irides reddish-brown. Head and neck pale hair- 
brown, the feathers long, narrow, distinct and acumi- 
nated. Upper parts dark hair-brown; under parts the 
Haunts. 
Food. 
Nest, &es 
General 
descrip- 
tion. 
Adult bird. 
