,46 FALCON. 



not the greater part of tliein, remain in Georgia throughout the year, 

 building a large compact and flat nest in the cypress ti-ees, some- 

 times on the rocks ; not uncommon on the deserted lakes of North 

 America, especially about the falls of the Niagara and St. Antoine, 

 and the young come to their colour by slow degrees; is a long lived 

 species, and has been known to attahi to 100 years. 



A. — Falco albicilla, Ind. Orn. i. 9. Lin. I. t23. Vultur. Gm. Lin. i. 253. jF«. suec. 



No. 55. Brun. No. 12. Midler, p 58. Faun, groenl. p. 53. Kram. 326. Scop. 



ami. i. No. 2. Shau-'s Zool. vii. 7t). 

 Aquila albicilla, seu Pygargus, Bris. i. 427. Id. Sco. i. 123. Klein. Av. p. 40. Will. 



p. 31. Id. Engl. 61. Raii. p. 7. 

 Aigle Pygargue, I)aud. ii. 62. Fieit. Amer, i. p. 27. pL 3. 

 Der Fischadler, Bcckst. Dent. ii. s. 222. 

 Der Fiscligeyer, Naturforsch. 2. s. 43, 

 Cinereous Eagle, Gen. Syn. i. 33- Id. Sup. p. 1 1. Br. Zool. i. No. 45 pi. l8. Id. ed. I8l2. 



i. 209. pi. 18. Arci. Zool. ii. 2l4. B. Lewin's Birds i. pi. 4. IValcot i. pi. 1. 



Or?i. Diet. Sj' Sjipp. 



This bird is 2ft. 9in. or 3 feet in length; and 7 in extent from 

 wing to wing; bill pale yellow; the head and neck dusky white, 

 inclining to ash colour; body and wings a tlill ash-colour, mixed with 

 brown; tail white; forehead, between the eyes and the nostrils, 

 sparingly covered, having very- narrow feathers like hairs. 



Inhabits Scotland and the Orknies, for the most part ; rarely met 

 with in England ; but is not uncommon in A^arious parts of Europe, 

 the Southern pai'ts of Russia, paiticularly about the Wolga, in 

 Sweden and Denmark, also in Iceland. In Greenland is found the 

 whole year, among the Islands and rocks, fi'om which it darts on the 

 several diving birds, as soon as they rise to the surface of the water, 

 the place of which it is enabled to ascertain by tlie bubbles ; now and 

 then attempts to prey on a live seal, when having fixed the talons too 

 fast to be disentangled, the seal draws the Eagle under the water, to 

 its destiniction; feeds on the lump-fish, and a sort of trout. In a nest 

 of one of these birds near Keswick, in Cumberland, was found a grey, 

 or hulse-water ti'out, above 12 pounds in weight ; Dr. Heysham, who 



