154 FALCON. 



76.— CHINESE EAGLE.— Pl. VIII. 



Falco sinensis, Ltd, Orn. i. 13. Cm. Lin. i. 2G4. Daiid. ii. 51. Shaiu'sZooL vii. 88; 

 Chinese Eagle, Gen. Syn. i. 35. pl. 3. 



THIS is of a large size ; bill hooked, black ; cere yellow ; 

 iiides brown ; plumage in general reddish brown ; top of the head 

 dusky, the feathers darker on the edges ; across the middle of the 

 wing a dark brown broad bar ; quills of the same colour ; base, 

 middle, and end of the tail dark brown ; all the under parts of the 

 body yellowish buff-colour, from chin to vent ; legs stout, yellow ; 

 claws black. 



Inhabits China. I owe the description and drawing of this 

 bird to my late friend, Tliomas Pennant, Esq. who originally had 

 it fiom Taylor White, Esq. 



I have also observed a bird, which probably varies only in age 

 or sex, in a collection of drawings exhibited for sale, many years 

 since, in King-street, Covent-Garden. This was crested ; the 

 crest composed of ash-coloured and black feathers intermixed ; bill 

 black ; irides pale yellow ; sides of the head, ronnd the eye, ash- 

 colonr ; back and wings deep chocolate brown, the feathers edged 

 with yellow ; wings and tail as in the other bird ; as also the 

 under parts, but the breast and belly somewhat blotched with 

 dusky, or dark brown ; edge of the wing ferruginous and black 

 mixed. 



The last was drawn of the natural size, which was that of an 

 eagle, but whence the original came, not mentioned. 



