218 FALCON. 



tlusky brown, the lastlongish; round the lower parts of the neck 

 and all beneath ferruginous, crossed with numerous fine lines of 

 bluish ash-colour; legs pale red. 

 Inhabits New-Holland. 



148.— WHITE-HEADED RUFOUS EAGLE. 



LENGTH between three and four feet. Bill yellowish horn- 

 colour ; irides orange ; head, neck, and breast white ; the rest of the 

 plumage in general dull rufous, or rust colour ; tail much rounded at 

 the end, but scarcely enough to be called cuneiform ; quills black, 

 reaching three-fourths on the tail ; legs dull yellow. 



Inhabits New-Holland, and there called Girrenera. It is pro- 

 bable, that part of its food consists in sucking the eggs of other 

 birds, as in the stomach of one was found a considerable cjuantity of 

 the shells ; it is also said to live much on fish. At first sight it might 

 be taken for a variety of the Pondicherry species, but differs in not 

 having the dark lines down the shafts of the feathers, independent 

 of the shape of the tail, which is nearly even in the last named bird. 



