FALCON. 53 



6 —GENOESE EAGLE. 



LENGTH 2 ft. 6m.; bill stout, horn colour, cere yellow, 

 almost covered with hairs ; plumage above, fiom the forehead to the 

 tail, uniform brown; greater quills very dark, almost black, with pale 

 shafts, and white on part of the inner webs ; under parts of the body 

 generally white, ^vith broad streaks of pale brown from the chin to 

 the breast, but from thence to the vent crossed with transverse bars 

 of the same on each feather; thighs the same; vent plain white; 

 under wing coverts mixed brown and white; tail 10|^in. even at the 

 end, above broAvn, crossed with about four bars of more obscure brown ; 

 the inner webs approaching to white; the thigh feathers reach below 

 the joint; legs very stout, yellow brown, claws black; the quills, 

 when the ^\^ngsare closed, reach to within l|in. of the end of the tail. 



Inhabits Genoa and parts adjacent. In the collection of Mr. 

 Bullock. 



7.— RING-TAILED EAGLE! 



Falco fulvus, /nd. Orre. i. p. 10. JLto. i. 125. Gm. JLiw. i. 256, Ceorg. Reise. 164. 



Decouv. russ. i. 89. — ii. 142. — iii. 303. Shaw's Zool. vii. 71. 

 Aquila, Bris. i. 419. Id. 8vo. 121. Klein. Av. 41. 



Chrysaetos Cauda annulo albo cincta, Raii.Q. Will. 28. Id.Eng.b9. Gerin.i, 1. 1. 

 Falco regalis, Aigle rt^al, Tern. Man. d'Orn. p. 10. Id. Ed. 2. p. 39. 

 Aigle commun, Buf. i. 86. PL Enl. 409. young bird. Voy. en Barb. i. 264. Daud.'ii. 47. 

 Die gemeine Adler, Beckst. Deutsch. ii. 212. 



Black Eagle, Br. Zool. i. No. 43. Id. Ed. 1812. i. p. 202. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 87. 

 Ring-tailed Eagle, G'«i. Syn. i. 32. Id. Sup. 10. Br. Zool./ol. p. 62. Lewin. Br. Birds^ 



i. pi. 3. Wakot. Syn. i. pi. 4. Bewick, i. pi. p. 7. Pult. Cat. Dors. p. 2. Orn. 



Diet. S; Sup. Amer. Orn. vii. p. 13. pi. 55. f. 1. 



THE length of this bird is 2jfeet, sometimes more, breadth 

 six feet at least. The bill is dusky; cere yellow; irides hazel; 



