48 FALCON. 



2— SEA EAGLE. 



Falco ossifragus,/«(/. On;. !. p. 12. Lin. Si/st.i. 22 I. Cm. Lin. i. 255. Br««. No. 13. 



Midler. No. 60. Rail. Syn. p. 7. Will. p. 29. t. 1. It. Posseg. p. 27. Foy. e« BarA. 



p. 26.3. Boroivsk. ii. p. 69. Bris. i. 437. /rf. 8vo. 125. Klein, p. 4l. X>a(trf. ii. p. 64. 

 Die See Adier, Beckst. Deuts. ii. s. 219. Shaiu^s Zool.\\\. pi. l8. 

 Orfiaie, B;;/. i. 42. t. 3. PI, Enl. 1 12. 4l5. Cet, Uc. Sard. p. 28. Kolb. Cap. ii. 137 .> 



^y. e« iJarS. i. 265. Tern. 3Ian. ed. 2. p. 49. 

 Der Beinbrecher, Natnrf. 8. 43. 

 Sea Eagle, Gen. Syn. i. p. .30, Id. Sup. p. 9. Br. Zool. i. No. 44. pi. 17. Id. fol. 63. 



/(/. Ed. 1812. i. p. 205. pi. 17. Pit/. Mem. t. p. 182. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 86. A. 



Bewick, i. pi. p. 11. Lewin's Birds \. pi. 1. Walcot.i. pi. 2. Pitlt. Dors. y>.2. 



Donov. pi. 105. Orn.Dict. ^ Sup. Amer. Orn.v'n. p. lO. pi. 55. f. 2. 



THIS is 3ft. in length at least, and expands more than 7ft. 

 The bill bluish horn colour ; cere and orbits yellow ; irides hazel ; 

 beneath the chin hairs like bristles ; plumage above ferruginous 

 brown ; the margins of the feathers darker ; belly paler, in some 

 whitish with ferruginous spots ; quills chocolate towards the base, 

 white in the middle ; tail deep brown, the outsides of some of the 

 feathers ferruginous, of others blotched M'ith white ; legs feathered 

 below the knees, and yellow, very strong, two inches in circum- 

 ference ; claws long, black, and veiy hooked. The female dull 

 ferruginoas. 



Inhabits Europe ; has been met \^ath in various parts of 

 England, among others Newcastle, Yarmouth in Shropshise, Ep- 

 ping, and New Forest, also Warkworth in Northumberland ;^ but 

 not known to breed more southward than Newcastle ;t not uncom- 

 mon in Scotland J and Ireland, where they keep for the most part 



* Bewick. 

 t Willogliby. 



X They quit Scotland in winter. Tour in Scotl. ii. p. 24. Mr. Pennant iaye, they were 

 so numerous a few years since in Rannock, that bs. were given for every one destroyed, and 



