jiS SEA EAGLE. Glafs II. 



III. The SEA E A G L E. 



Bein-brecher, Offifraga, Meef- Raufyn. gu. 7. 



a-^^2r, Fifch-arn, Halisetos, Sea eagle. Dale'sHarivich,l<^(i, 



G^fner tvt;. 2C1. 203. Mariiris hij}. Wejt. ijle: 70. 



Halistos. Turneri_ Le grand ai^le de mer. Brijfon 



Auguiftabarbata, Offifraga. .-^/flV. a'v. i. 437. 



av.\. 118. Seaeagle. Br.Zool.6-^. 



Kalissetos. Plinii lib. \o. c. ^. Falco offifragus. Lin. fyji. 12^. 



Sib. hiJi.Scot. 14. QaafeorHo Brunnich 13. 



Seaeagle, or ofprey. /F?V. orH. 59. 



iHIS fpecies is found in Ireland^ and feveral 

 parts of Great'Biiiain ; the fpecimen we took 

 our defcripcion from, was fliot in the county of Gdl- 

 way \ Mr. Willoughhy tells us there was an aery of 

 them in JVhinfield-park^ Wefimorehnd \ and the eagle 

 foaring in the air, with a cat in its talons, which Bar- 

 low drew from the very faft which he faw in $tot- 

 land*^ 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 colIe6lion of prints. 

 ^'urnsr fays, that in his days, it was too well known ia 

 England., for it made horrible deftrudion among the 

 fiili J he adds, that fiihermen were fond of anointing 

 their baits with the fat of this bird, imagining that it 

 had a peculiar alluring quality : they were fuperfti- 

 tious enough to believe that whenever the fsa eagle 

 Covered over a piece of water, the fifh, (as if charmed) 

 would rife to the furface with their bellies upwards ; 



* Mr. Wal^ole\ catalogue of engravers, p. 49. 



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