FAI.CON. 241 



180 — STATENLAND EAGLE, 



Falco australis, Jnd. Orn. i. 16. Gm. Lin. i> 259. Daud. ii. 56. Shaw's Zool. vii. 92. 

 Statenland Eagle, Gen. Syn. i. 40. 



SIZE of tlie Plaintive Vulture, length 25in. Cere yellow ; 

 body brown ; tail black, the end of it tipped with dirty yellowish 

 white. 



Inhabits Statenland ; has a kind of ciy not much unlike that of 

 a hen, so as to deceive any one into supposition of its being so, at 

 first hearing. 



181.— WHITE-BREASTED EAGLE. 



LENGTH 2ft. Sin. Bill black, stout; cere yellow, passing 

 under the eye ; head, neck, and breast, to the middle of the belly, 

 dusky white, with a darker line down the shaft of each feather, 

 which on the breast is elongate, and grows broader at the end; back 

 blotched brown and white ; wings and scapulars deep brown; under 

 veing coverts mottled brown and white ; quills deep plumbeous black, 

 mottled with white near half way from the base ; tlie three outer 

 feathers marked with brown on the outer web, near the tips ; tlie 

 quills reach to within 1^ inch of the end ; lower belly mixed deep^ 

 and paler brown; legs very stout, feathered before below the joint, 

 colour deep yellow ; claws black, and very hooked. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay. — Mr. Bullock. 



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