124 RINGTAIL EAGLE. Clafs If. 



One of this fpecies, which has now been nine years in 

 the pofleffion of Oweji Holland^ Efq-, of Conway^ lived 

 thirty-two years with the gentleman who made hirn a 

 prefent of it •, but what its age was when the latter 

 received it from Ireland is unknown. The fame bird 

 alfo furnifnes a proof of the truth of the other remark, 

 having once9 through the neglefl of fervants, endured 

 hunger for twenty- owe days, without any fuftenance 

 whatfoever. 



II. The RINGTAIL EAGLE. 



Golden eagle, with a white ring Faico fulvus. L'tn.fyji.iz^. 



about jiS tail. IPil. orn. 59. BriJJon a-j. I. 420. 



'Rail (yn. a^j. 6. Ring-tail Eagle. Br. Zool. 62. 

 White tailed eagle. Ed'v). i. 



THIS bird is common to the northern parts of 

 Europe and America-, that figured by Mr. Ed- 

 wards, differing only in fome white fpots on the 

 breaft, from our fpecies. It is equal in fize to the 

 precedent : the bill is of a blackilli horn color ; the 

 cere yellow •, the whole body is of a deep brown, 

 nightly tinged with rufl color ; but what makes a 

 long defcription of this kind unnecelTary, is the re- 

 markable band of white on the upper part of the tail; 

 the end only being of a deep brown : which charac- 

 ter it maintains through every fiage of life, and in all 

 countries where it is found. The legs are feathered 

 to the feet : the toes yellow, the clav/s black. Mr. 

 IVillougkhy gives the following very curious account 

 of the neit of this fpecies, p. 21. 



