264 . FALCON. 



woods, near the Schuylkill, perched on the dead limb of a tree, and 

 when first obsei'ved, feeding on a mouse. This was a male. In size 

 it agrees with the Speckled Buzzard; but it was on all hands allowed, 

 that such an one had not been met with before, nor strictly to be 

 compared with any known species. 



206.— BROWN AND TAAITSY EAGLE. 



LENGTH 2ft. Bill stout, black, with no notch at the end ; 

 cere yellowish ; above the feathers are brown with tawny edges ; 

 beneath the same, but the edges more deeply ending in tawny ; 

 wing coverts as the back ; quills brown, barred with darker ; the 

 three outer plain dusky, but all have the inner webs white, barred 

 with a dark colour ; under wing coverts white ; the first quill four 

 inches shorter than the second, the three next equal in length ; tail 

 nine inches, even at the end, brown, crossed with eight or nine black- 

 ish bars ; inner webs white, with brown bars ; ends of the feathers 

 tipped with dusky white ; legs stout, yelloAV ; claws black ; the 

 feathers reach a little way on the shins, and those of the thighs hang 

 half wav over them. 



Native place uncertain. — In the collection of Mr. Bullock. 



