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SE A’E.AGLE: Glare 
of them in Whinfield-park, Weftmoreland, and the — 
eagle foaring in the air, with a cat in its talons, 
which Barlow drew from the very faét which he faw 
in Scotland*, is of this kind. The cat’s refiftance 
brought both animals to the ground, when Barlow 
took them up; and afterwards caufed the event to 
be engraved in the thirty-fixth plate of his collec- 
tion of prints. Zurner fays, that in his days, it 
was too well known in Exgland, for it made hor- 
rible deftruction among the fifh; he adds, the 
fifhermen were fond of anointing their baits with 
the fat of this bird, imagining that it had a peculiar 
alluring quality: they were fuperftitious enough - 
to believe that whenever the /ea eagle hovered over 
a piece of water, the fifh, (as if charmed) would 
rife to the furface with their bellies upwards; 
and in that manner prefent themfelves to him. 
No writer fince C/ufus has defcribed the fea eagle ; 
though no uncommon fpecies, it feems at prefent 
to be but little known; being generally confound- 
ed with the golden eagle, to which it bears fome 
refemblance. 
The color of the head, neck and body, are the 
fame with the latter ; but much lighter, the tawny 
part in this predominating: in fize it is far fupe- | 
rior; the extent of wings in fome being nine or ten 
feet. The bill is larger, more hooked, and more 
arched; underneath grow feveral fhort, but ftrong 
hairs or briftles, forming a fort of beard. This — 
* Mr. Walpole’s catalogue of engravers, p. 49. 
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