53 FALCON. 



reach three-fourths thereon, legs yellow, feathered to the toes, 

 which are scaly ; claws very large. 



This is rarely seen in England*, but in Scotland and Ireland not 

 uncommon, where it breeds in the cliffs, and lays three or four Avhite 

 eggs, but rarely hatches more than two ; now and then breeds on 

 Snowdon Hills, in Wales ; it appears in the middle of Germany, in 

 winter, on the liighest South and North Alps, and is taken without 

 difficulty, by baiting a trap with raw flesh — it not only preys on hares, 

 wood-hens, and partridges, but ^vill also attack fellow deer, sheep, 

 geese, and other poultry .| Not uncommon in Russia; it abounds at 

 Orenburg, and is there exposed to sale, Ijeing used for falconry, to 

 take wolves, foxes, and antelopes, and ^ood birds sell dear ; used by 

 the Kergisians, and often a horse given for one, when a sheep will 

 purchase another species; J extends to India.§ Thought by M. 

 Temminck to be the same as the Ring-tail Eagle, differing in 

 age or sex. 



A.— Falco cygneus, Lid. Orn.'i. lA. Daud.W, 47. A. Shaw.vW, p. 76. Gm.Lin.\. 



257.47. Brw. i. 424, /d. 8vo. 122. Klein. Av. 42. Spaloicsle. Vog.\. t.l. 

 White Eagle, Gen. Si/n. i. 36. Chart. Onom. 63. 9. 



Tliis is wholly white, and inhabits the banks of the Rhine, and 

 the Alps, in Germany — is probably only a white variety of the 

 Golden Eagle. 



* One shot at Yarmouth, Feb. 1783, measured from tip of one wing to the other, 12 feet ; 

 another killed at Bexhill, in Sussex, fifteen or sixteen years since. Lin. Trans, iv. p. I. 

 t Beckst, Muster, p. 57. 

 J Decouv. russ. 3. 127. 

 I Sir J, Anstruther's Drawings. 



