BIRDS. RAPACIOUS. Eagles. 481 



Inhabits Terra del Fuego. — This animal is about two feet and a half long ; it is confidered by Mr 

 Latham as a Vulture, and by Dr Gmelin as an Eagle, for which reafon it is placed in this interme- 

 diate fubdivifion : The bill is black, having the cere extending almoft to the point ; that membrane, 

 the fpace round the orbits, and the naked fides of the head, or ftraps, with the legs and feet, are 

 orange coloured or yellow ; the wings are brown ; the tip of the tail and the claws are black. 



33 9. Cheriway. — 9. F. Gypaetus Chtr'ivuay. 40. 



The hind head nas a rufty creft ; the body is rufty, with a whitifh head, yellow feet 

 and legs, and a rofe coloured cere. Jacquin, beytr. 17. n. 12. t. 4. 



Falco Cheriway. Syft. nat. ed. Gmel. i. 254. n. 40. — Vultur Cheriway. Lath. ind. orn. i. 8, 

 n. 20. — Cheriway Vulture. Lath. fyn. fup. 5. 



Inhabits the ifland of Aruba or Amba, on the coaft of Venazuela, in Spanilh America. — The creft 

 is ccmpofed of 1 tg ih feathers, and it does not appear that the Cheriway has the power of erecting 

 it ; the bill is blue ; the head and neck are yellowifh ; the cere and naked orbits are rofe coloured ; 

 the quill feathers of the wings are very long and blackifh ; the tail is longer than the wings, and is 

 moftly blackifh, the two intermediate quill feathers being barred with white ; the bafe of the tail is 

 white ; the claws are black. 



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Thefe are larger in fize than the animals of the fucceeding fubdivifion, and their legs are 

 for the molt part rough. 



The birds arranged under the fubdivifions of Eagles and Hawks, differ from the Bajlard-eagks in 

 preying on living animals, while the laft prefer carrion and dead carcafes, like the Vultures : Eagles 

 feed chiefly on fheep, hares, fquirrels, water-fowl of various kinds, ferpents, and fifh ; whilft Hawks 

 moftly prey on fmall birds and minute quadrupeds ; both fly very high, fo as frequently to become 

 invifible, and often remain fufpended in the air, hovering motionlefs on the wing in queft of prey, 

 which they fee at a prodigious diftance, having the fenfe of vifion in a moft exquifite cjegree, and 

 they pounce down upon their prey with incredible fwiftnefs, more like the effect of a projectile force 

 than of voluntary motion : They moftly live entirely folitary, except in the breeding feafon ; they 

 are faid to abftain from preying on birds, efpecially domeftic fowls, during the hatching feafon, as if 

 by agreement to allow thefe to make their nefts, to hatch, and to bring up their young ones ; their 

 gaftric juice is exceffively acrid, and they can abftain from food for a confiderable length of time, are 

 very voracious, and are killed by eating bread ; they vary confiderably in fize and external appear- 

 ance, from age and difference of fex, which renders it very difficult to arrange them properly in fyf- 

 tem, but in general the females are larger and ftronger than the males. 



The fubdivifion into Eagles and Hawks is fcarcely legitimate, as the limits cannot be pointed out 

 with any tolerable accuracy, it is however retained in this edition on the very refpeftable authority of 

 Dr Gmelin. — T. 



34 I. Crowned Eagle. — 8. F. Aquila coronata. 1. 



The cere is ruft coloured; the legs are covered with white wool, fpotted with black; 

 the breaft is reddifh, and the fides are barred with black. 



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