The Golden Eagle. Aquila Fulva, feu Aurea. 



Numb. I. 



ITS Weight was twelve Pounds 5 its length from the Tip or Point of the Beak to 

 the End of the Tail, three Foot and nine Inches; the Breadth, when the 

 Wings extended , were fix Foot ; the Bill was four Inches, the hooked part alone 

 hung down beyond the lower Chap a full Inch ; the Point was blacker ; the reft 

 of the Bill of a Horn Colour, inclining to a cinereous or blewifh: The Tongue 

 was broad, round, and blunt at the Tip, towards the Root on both Sides armed with 

 two hooked, horned Appendices, tied down in the Middle to the lower Mandible 

 by a thin Membrane: The Palate perforate in the Middle; the lower Chap of the 

 Bill channelled ; the Edges whereof ftanding up on both Sides are received in the 

 upper. 



The Membrane which arifing from the Forehead, is extended beyond the Noftrils, 

 and likewife the Borders of the Bridle or Corners of the Mouth are yellow : The 

 Feathers of the Neck are rigid and ferrugineous : A certain thick Tunicle, flretched 

 forth from below upwards, covered the Eye in Nidation; this Membrane is called in 

 Latin Periophthalmiiim--, two Eye-Lids, one above, the other beneath, covered the Eye, 

 although the lower alone, extended upwards, was fufficient to cover the whole Eye : 

 The Region of the Eye-Brows was very eminent, like that prominent Part of the 

 Roofs of Houfes, called the Eaves, under which the Eyes lay hid, as it were funk in 

 a deep Cavity ; the Eyes were of a fiery Splendour, fhiuing forth in a pale Blew ; the 

 Pupil was of a deep Black. It is very admirable to obferve what Care Natiu-e hath taken, 

 and what Provifion fhe hath made for the Confervation of the Eyes, than which, 

 there is no Parr in this Animal more excellent; for not being content with one Tegu- 

 ment, as is ufual in other Animals, Ihe Icemeth to have framed four feveral Lids or 

 Covers for them. The Teriophthalmiitm, or Membrane for Nidation is the fame 

 thing, and affords the fame ufe to them that the Eye-Lids do to a Man. Befides which 

 Nature hath fuperadded two other Eye-Lids, and of thefe lower fo large, that they 

 alone fuffice to cover and prcferve the Eyes. The Colour of the Wings and Tail is 

 dusky, and fo much the darker as the Feathers are bigger ; the Colour of the refl: of 

 the fmall Feathers of the whole Body is a dark Ferrugineous or Chefnut Colour, mixed 

 here and there with a yellowifh Caft. The Legs were feathered below the Knees ; the 

 Legs and Feet were yellowiih; the Talons very large and black ; he was young and 

 very tame : I kept him in a Basket-Cage, made on purpofe for him, for fome time, 

 and fed him with the Guts and Heads of Fowls, the laft of which he was very fond 

 of, and fometimes a young Cat, which he would feize with his Talons, and with 

 his Beak break her Skull, killing her immediately, after which he would divert him- 

 felf with pulling off her Furr for fome time and then eat her. 



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