FALCON. 249 



1 90. — C ARA€C A EAGLE. 



Falco cristatiis, Ind. Orn. i. p. 17. Gm. Lin. i. 260. Daud. ii. p. 43. 

 Falco Caracca, Skate's Zbol. vii. 64. Bechst. Alig. U. d. Vog. i. p. 7'2. 

 Aquila coionada, Dillon's Trav. p.^0. t. 3. 

 Caracca Falcon, Gen. S'y/i. i. p. 81. 



THIS is a large species, weighing twenty pounds, and ^having 

 an extent of wing ten feet. The bill is very hooked and black, with 

 a slight projection in the usual place of the upper mandible, but 

 scarcely to l>e called a notch ; irides dark ; round the eye somewhat 

 bare ; the head and part of the neck are ash-colour, rather full of 

 feathers ; the i^st of the upper parts raven black ; breast and under 

 parts silvery white ; beneath the wings the same ; quills and tail 

 barred with dusky ; on the ciuills nine or ten bars, and the tail 

 crossed with four; shape at the end nearly even ; legs very stout, 

 rough, and jdlow ; claws black. 



Said to inhabit the Caraccas in South America, and was brought 

 from thence to the palace of Buen Retiro at Madrid, in the year 1778, 

 where it remained alive for several years. In a collection of drawings 

 at Sir Ashton Lever's, is one said to be taken from the life, and 

 corresponds with the above description, except having the appearance 

 of a white collar round the neck. 



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