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FALCON. 



phimage in general brown; head and neck pale fulvous; tail white 

 for two thirds of the length, the rest dusky black ; legs feathered to 

 the toes, which are yellow ; claws black. 



A. — Falco canadensis, Lin. Sysf. Ed. 10. p. 88. Gm. Lin. i. 256. /3. 



Falco fulvus, Lin. Ed. 12. 125. 6. |8. 



Aquila Cauda alba Americana, Gerin. i. 40. t. 7. 



White-tailed Eagle, Gen. Si/n. i. 32. 6. A. Edu: pi. i.* Bewick, i. pi. p. 9. 



This differs in having the tail white, except the end, which is 

 black bro^vn ; the breast marked with tiiangular spots ; forehead 

 between the eyes naked. 



B.— Falco melanoeetus, Ind. Orn. i. 10. Lin. i. 124. Gm. Lin. i. 254. Raii. 7. Will. 



Orn. p. 3. t. 2. Klein. Av. 41. Id. Ov. t. 5. f. 1. Bris. i. 434. Id. Svo. i. 125. 



Phil. Trans. Ivii. 346. Gerin. i. t. 3. Boroicsk: ii. 68. Shaw's Zool. vii. 74. 

 Aigle noir, Bn/. i. 86. 



Sch-nartz-braune Adler, Frisch. t. 69. Naturf. 8. s. 43. 

 Black Eagle, Gen. Syn. i. 28. Id. Sup. 8. Will. Eng. 62. pi. 2. Albin. ii. pi. 2. Arct. 



Zool. ii. 87. 



The Black Eagle is 2ft. lOin. long; cere reddish; plumage in 

 general much darker than in others, nearly black; head and neck 

 mixed with rufous; base half of the tail white, spotted with black; 

 the end half blackish ; legs feathery, dirty white. 



This bird, and its varieties, inhabits more or less the three 

 quarters of the globe, being found in many parts of Europe, America, 

 and the North part of Asia. In Germany it is too comnion, and ^ ery 

 desti'uctive. Beckstein says, that in an ayry of one of them were found 

 the skeletons of three hundred ducks, and forty hares, and that the 

 rapine they commit in the uncultivated parts can never be computed ; 

 one of these birds has been known to attack two children of a year 



* Thbiiglif by'M. Vfeillot to be a young bird of the Bald Eagle.— See Am. i. p. 27. 



