4 3o BIRDS, ^RAPACIOUS. Baftard-Eagles." 



reddifb, it is fringed at die fides, and garnifbed underneath with ftiff black briftles, it is ftraightilh 

 and hooked at the end, which is furrowed on each fide; the noftrils are large, oval, and hid in ftrong 

 black briftles ; the feet are hairy down to the toes, having ftrojjg black claws, not much bent ; the 

 wings have each twenty-eight bright aih coloured quill feathers, and the tail has twelve quills, which 

 are afh coloured in the middle. 



The feveral varieties of this fpecies build their nefts in the holes and caverns of inacceffible rocks, 

 laying three or four eggs each brood ; they keep in fmall flocks in the higheft parts of the moun- 

 tains, preying on alpine animals, fuch as Chamois, Goats, and Lambs, and are even faid to attack 

 men when afleep ; they likewife feed on dead carcafes. In general external appearance, in keeping- 

 together in flocks, and in their appetite for carrion, thefe animals refemble the Vulture tribe ; but in 

 other refpecb, fuch as their courage, preying on living animals, and by having the head and neck co- 

 vered with feathers, they refemble the Eagles. 



3 i 7. Cinereous Baftard-Eagle. — 7. F. Gypaetus Albicilla. 39, 



Has a yellow cere and yellow feet ; the plumage is light cinereous ; the quill feathers 

 of the tail being white, the middle ones having black tips. 



Falco albicilla. Syft. nat, ed. Gmel. i. 253. n. 39. Faun, groenl. 53. Lath. ind. orn. i. 9V n. 2. — 

 Vultur albicilla. Syft. nat. ed. xii. 123. n. 3. Faun. fuec. 55. Brun. orn. 12. — Aquila Albicilla. 

 Briff. av. i. 427. — Pygargus, Albicilla, Hirundinaria. bell. av. 15. Gefn. av. 205. Raj. av. 7, 

 n. 5. — Grand Pygargue. Buff. oif. i. gg. PL enl. n. 411. — White-tailed Eagle. Will. orn. angl. 

 61. — Cinereous Eagle. Penn. Brit. zool. i. n. 45. t. 18. Ar£t. zoel. ii. 214. Lewin, brit. birds, i. 

 t. 4. Lath. fyn. i. 33. n. 8. Id. fup. 11. — Braunfahler Adler. Frifch, t. 70. — Fifke Orn. Brun- 

 nick, n. 12. — Elo. hift. Kamtfchatk. 501. 



Inhabits Europe, particularly Scotland and its iflands. — This fpecies is about the fize of a Turkey, 

 being two feet nine inches long ; it feeds much on fifh, and even on the young of feals, but in this 

 attempt it is often deftroyed, by fixing on old ones, which dive into the water and drown it; it like- 

 wife preys on various kinds of birds, efpecially thofe which dive for fifh, which it watches with great 

 attention, and catches as they rife to the furface. The body and wings are cinereous, or afh colour- 

 ed, mixed with brown ; the head and neck are pale afh ; the hides and bill pale yellow ; the bafe of 

 the bill is longiih ; the fpace between the noftrils and orbits is bluifh and almoft naked, being inter- 

 fperfed with a few briftles ; the tail is white ; the legs are bright yellow, and covered from below 

 the knees with down, and the feet have black claws. The Greenlanders ufe the fkins of this fpecies 

 for cloathing, and either kill them with bows and arrows, or catch them in nets, or when ftupified by 

 gorging themfelves with the fat of feals, which is left for that purpofe. 



32 8. Plaintive Baftard- Eagle. — 19. F. Gypaetus plancus. 45. 



The hind head is crefted ; the fides of the head and neck, are naked; the breaft and 

 upper parts of the body are barred with brown and white, the under parts being 

 white ; the tail is white, with black tranfverfe bands. Miller, illuft. t. 17. Cook, voy. ii. 

 184.'*. 32. 



Falco plancus. Syft. nat. ed. Gmel. i. 257. n. 45 Vultur plancus. Lath. ind. orn. i. 8. n. 19. — 



Plaintive Eagle. Lath. fyn. i. 34. — Plaintive Vulture. Lath. fyn. fup. 4. 



Inhabits 



