FALCON. 159 



and female are rarely seen apart ; they build on the top of trees, or 

 on rocks, and lay Uvo or three white eggs. By some called the Cry- 

 ing Eagle, as it flies high and cries loudly, to be heard far oif ; is 

 very diflicult to be shot, as it is a shy bird. It seems allied both 

 to the Pondicherry Eagle, and the Osprey. 



82.-BLAGRE EAGLE. 



Falco Blagnis, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. vil. Daud. ii. p. 70. Shawns Zool. rii. p. 96. 

 Le Blagre, Levaill. Ois. i. pi. 5. 

 Blagre Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup. 2. p, 34. 



SIZE and habit of the Osprey ; bill brownish ; irides deep 

 brown; head, neck, and parts beneath, glossy white; but the top of 

 the head, and hind part of the neck incline to brown ; lesser wing 

 coverts and tail pale grey brown, and the end of the last white ; 

 greater quills dusky black ; second quills like the rest of the wing ; 

 the feathers for the most part very rigid ; legs yellow. 



Tliis bird inhabits the internal parts of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 but is only seen on the borders of rivers, which it frec]uents for the 

 sake of fish, taking them in the manner of the Osprey, by plunging 

 into the water ; its sight seems to be very piercing, at it will very 

 frequently descend at once fi'om a height in the air, where it is 

 scarcely visible, into the water, after its prey. 



