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"t>rown: the head and neck incline to afh-colour, efpecially the 

 forehead and chin : the breaft, belly, thighs, and vent, pale 

 dufky ferruginous : legs black, rough, and warty : claws very 

 hooked : the hind toe very fhort, but the claw crooked and fharp. 

 Place and This is a very voracious and fierce fpecies, and inhabits the 



norther?: parts of thefe kingdoms, for the moft part : we however 

 now and then meet with it towards tntjouth, as two or three in- 

 ftances have evinced us ; one in our own collection being fhot near 

 Greenwich. It moftly frequents the Schetland IJles, and thofe of 

 Ferroe. Is alfo common in Norway, and as far as Iceland. On 

 the rocky ifland Foula is much efteemed, as it is faid to defend 

 the flocks from the Eagle, which it beats and purfues with great 

 fury; the natives denying that it ever injures or attacks the 

 ■poultry *. It often preys on the lefTer Gulls, and other birds, in 

 the fame manner as the Hawk ; and is feen to attack the firft on 

 the wing, in order to make them difgorge the fijh they may have 

 taken ; as has been before obferved in refpect to the bald Eagle -f-. 

 During incubation is courageous to an alarming degree, in regard 

 to its young-, as it will then attack feveral perfons in company 

 without fear, fhould they approach its haunts J. Thefe birds alfo 

 are frequent in many high latitudes of the Jouthern hemifphere : 

 our circumnavigators met with them in Falkland IJles, particu- 

 larly about Fort Egmont, whence called Port Egmont Hens. In 

 this place, and at 'Terra del Fuego, they were obferved to make 

 their nefts among the dry grafs ||. After breeding-time difperfe 

 over the ocean, and for the moft part feen in pairs §. Met with. 



* Dr. Forfter informs us, that it often tears Lambs to pieces in the Ferroe IJles, 

 and carries them to the neft. — Voy. i. p.118. f See vol. i. p, 29, of this Workc 

 % For a fuller account of the manners, fee Britijh Zoology, 

 H Forfi. Voy. i. p. 293. § Cook's Voy. i. p. 44. 



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