Crass Il. SaktAri EB A Gale. 
white tailed eagle, p. 61. to be but a variety of 
this, having the fame chara¢teriftic mark, and dif- 
fering only in the pale color of the head. 
The antients believed, that the pebble, com- 
monly called the ztites*, or eagle ftone, was form- 
ed in the eagle’s neft; and that the eges could not 
be hatched without its affiftance. Many abfurd 
ftories have been raifed about this foffil, which (as 
it bears but an imaginary relation to the eagle) 
muft be omitted in a zoologic work. 
Bein-brecher, Offifraga, Meer- 
adler, Fifch-arn, Halizetos. 
Gef/ner av. 201. 203. 
Haliztos. Turzer:. 
Auguifta barbata, Offifraga. 
Aldr. av. i. 118. 
Halizetos. Phianii Lb. 10. C4 
Sib. hift. Scot. 14. 
Sea eagle, or ofprey. Wil. orn. 
59: 
Raii fyn. av. 7. 
Sea eagle. Dale’s Harwich. 
390. 
Martin’s hift. Weft. ifles 70. 
Le grand aigle de mer.- Bri/- 
fou av. 1. 
Sea eagle. Br. Bool: Se eae! ae 
Fal. D120 415. 
Falco offifragus. Liz, fyft. 
124. 
Gaafe orn. Brunnich 1 Bel 
L’Orfrair. Hi/?, d’oys. 1. 112. 
44. Sea Ene 
GLE. 
FATS fpecies is found in Ireland, and feveral 
parts of Great Britain; the {pecimen we took 
our defcription from, was fhot in the county of 
Galway: Mr. Willughby tells us there was an aery 
* Tf the reader’s curiofity fhould be excited, we refer him 
for information to Pliny, lib. x..c. 3. lib. xxx. ¢. 21. to 
Boetius de gemmis, p. 375. to Dr. Woodward's catalogue of 
foflils, vol. i. p. 53. ¢. 268, 269. and Grew’s Rarities, p. 297+ 
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