FALCON. 



SPE. IV. GREY EAGLE. No. 4. 



Vultur Albicllla. Lin. Syft. I. p. 123. 

 L'Aigle a queue blanche. Brif. Orn. I. p, 427. 



This bird meafures in length nearly three feet j and is leven feet in extent, 

 from the tip of one wing to that of the other : the bill is horn colour : cere and 

 eyes pale yellow: the fpace between the bill and under the eyes bare of feathers : 

 the head and neck are of a pale afh-coloured grey : body and wings afh coloured 

 brown : quill feathers dark brown : tail wholly white : legs yellow, and feathered 

 a litde below the knees. 



In young birds the tail is more or lefs of a brown colour, being fcarccly com- 

 plete with the white tail, until the third or fourth year. This fpecies is not un- 

 common in the northern parts of England, Scodand, and the Orknies: its chief 

 prey is fifh. In a neft of thefe birds, near Kefwick in Cumberland, was found a 

 grey trout, above twelve pounds in weight. 



