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Length, prey, may be bigger and more weighty. ] Its length from the tip of the Beak to the 



end of the train was two feet and nine Inches, to^ the end of the Talons two feet and 



Breadth, five inches. The diftance from tip to tip of the Wings ftretcht out feven feet wanting 



The Beak. Dut °n e inch,pr two yards and eleven Inches : From the tip of the Beak to the Nofe- 

 thrils was near two inches, to the corners of the mouth three, to the Eyes almoft (b 

 much. The breadth of the Beak an inch and a quarter , the hooked part of the 



The Nares. upper Mandible cjver-hanging the lower three quarters of an Inch. The Nofthrils 

 oblique and half an Inch long. The fecond or middle bone of the Leg was fix inches 



Beak! r ° f tlK and an half long, the third or lowermoft no more than three and an half. The colour 

 of the Beak was yellow, and alio of the Sear or skin covering its Bafts as far as the 



Th To P ngue!' Nofthrils. In the Palate it had a Cavity equal to the Tongue. The'Tongue broad. 



Eyes. ' fleftry, black at the tip. The fides or edges of the Beak fharp. The Eyes great, 



withdrawn or funk jp the head, overhung and defended by Eye-brows, prominent 



like the Eves of a houfe : The hides of a pale Hazel colour [_ in one Bird which we 



The Feet, fa w of this fort they were red , in another yellow. ] The feet were yellow, in the 

 foles were callous rough knobs, or flefhy protuberances, as in others of this kind : 

 Talons. The Talons 1 large, (harp, and crooked, that of the back-toe (as generally in moft' 

 Birds ) being greateft : That of the middle toe an ineh long, the toe it felf being two 

 Inches. 



colour of the The Head was pale or whitifh, the feathers being fharp-pointed, and their fhafts 

 N eck) black. The neck covered with narrow feathers^ the upper part thereof fomething 

 Rump, red 3 the Rump blackifh 5 elfe the whole body round of a dark ferrugineous colour. 



The°prime ^e number of prime feathers in each Wing was about twenty fix or twenty feven, 



wing- feathers, w hereof the third and fourth were the longeft} the fecond fhorter by half an inch 



The wings, than the third, and the firft by three inches and an half than the fecond. The Wings 

 when clofed reached not to the end of the train. Of the Pinion feathers and the 

 reft of the flags they make Quils for Virginals, and very good Writing Pens. All the 

 prime feathers of the Wings were black 5 the leffer rows of the Wing-feathers had 



The Train, their edges of an afh-colour. The tail was eleven inches and an half long, made up 

 of twelve feathers 5 the upper or extreme part for above half way being white, the 

 lower black. The extreme or outm oft feathers were (horteft, the reft gradually longer 

 to the middlemoft. 



The Entrails, It had a large Gall,long Tefticles, fmall Guts, having many revolutions, and being 



and Guts. ^y meafure one hundred thirty two Inches, or eleven foot long, a fmall ftomach 3 above 

 Which the Gullet was dilated into a kind of bag, granulated on the infide with many 

 fmall protuberancies, which I take to be glandules, and which being fqueezed a little, 

 yielded a kind of pap or (lime, ferving, it is like, as a menflrmm to help macerate the 

 meat in the ftomach. It had a vaft Craw , fmall (hort Appendices or blind guts, viz,, 

 not m^»re than three quarters of an inch long. * 



This Bird, fhot dead by a certain Fowler, we bought \id delcribed at Venice in the 

 year 1664. and from the white ring about the tail denominated it Pygargus. It differs 

 from that we haveentituled the Golden Eagle -with a white ring about its tail, chiefly in 

 the colour of the Head and Beak : So that I fufpect it may be the fame : as alfb with 

 flje- Golden Eagle qi Aldrovandus, notwithstanding the white colour of the train, 

 whist perchance may alter with age, [ yet it differs alfo from it in other accidents, as 

 for example, in tjie yellow colour of the Beak. ] If thefe three birds be not the fame, 

 . yet are they very-like and near of kin to one another: Perchance the only difference 

 may be in Age or Sex. 



The vygvg of xhe Pygargus of * Aldrcvandus feems to be* a different kind, which he defcribes in 



^Et w ,the(e words, 



onmboi. It is of a mean magnitude as big as a large Dunghil-Coek. The Bill all over yellow, 



lK Beik efS ' hooked, and bending by little and little from the very root to the utmoft tip or 



point of the hook, fomewhat longer than in other Eagles in proportion to the big- 



Pupii. nefs of the Bird. The Pupil of the eye very black, the Irk yellow. The crown of the 



SLd U and Che ^ ea ^ and all the neck of a pale Chefnut, inclining to an- Afh-colour, the tips of the 

 C Ncck! feathers being more black. The back and upper part of the Wings are covered with 

 Back > dark ferrugineous and blackifh feathers, as alfo are the Belly and Thighs for the moft . 



Th? Train. P art - The Tail from the Rump to the end is wholly white 5 whence the name of AU 

 bicilla was not undeservedly by Gaza impofed upon it, Howbeit two of the fmaller 

 feathers [_ I fuppofe he means the two middlemoft ] which lie upon and cover the 



The Legs and other^reater and principal ones have black tips. The Legs are almoft wholly bare of 

 feathers, and both Legs and Feet intenlely yellow, both being al^over covered with 

 fquare Table-like Scales. The Talons very fharp. The 



