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o^syciTHOLogr. BookII. 



Itsbignefs. 

 Beak, 



Mouth, 



Eyes, 



Head. . 

 The Neck 

 bare of fea- 

 thers. 



Scaring hair- 

 like feathers. 



The back. 



Colour of the 

 body,Tail, 

 Feet. 



Irs length. 

 The Bill. 



The Head. 

 The Colour. 



f. VII. 



* The Brazilian Urubitinga of Marggrave, very like ourPygarg or White-tail 1 d Eagle. 



T His Bird is like an Eagle, of the bignefs of a Goofe of fix months old. It hath 

 a thick hooked black Beak 5 a yellowifti skin about the Nofthrils : Great 

 fparkling Aquiline Eyes: A great Head: Yellow Legs and Feet: Four Toes in each 

 foot, difpofed after the ufual manner 3 crooked, long, black Talons: Large Wings: 

 A broad Tail. It is all over covered with dusky and blackilh feathers 5 yet the 

 Wings are waved with auh-colour. The Tail is nine Inches long, white for fix, the 

 end for three Inches being black 5 howbeit in the very tip there is again a little white. 

 This is a ftately Bird of tall ftature [_Egregi£jiatur<e. ] It doth in many things abroach 

 to that defcribed by us under the title of Pygargus, fave that the upper part of the tail- 

 feathers in that of ours teas white, the lower blacky, whereas in this, on the contrary the 

 upper is blacky, and the lower white. Mr. Willughby mentions another variety or diffe- 

 rence of the Pygargus, in which the Tail-feathers from the middle downwards were white, 

 the upper half being blacky, which feems to be altogether the fame with that here defcribed by 

 Marggrave. 



$. VIII. 



*Of the Vulturine Eagle of Aldrovandus, called Percnopteros, Gypaetos, 

 and alfo Ovipelargus. 



T Hough Aldrovandus makes this Bird a fort of Eagle, entitling it Perknopteros $ 

 yet he confeffes it to have nothing Aquiline befide the name, being ignoble, 

 fhaggifh, and deformed, and therefore deferving to be let behind not only Eagles, but 

 alfo Vultures. We take it to belong to the family of Vultures, as will appear from its 

 defcription compared with the general notes of Vultures. 



Of this fort of Birds Aldrovandus gives us three figures, and three delcriptions, 

 befides that of Bellonius, which, whatever it be, feems to be a Bird of another kind. 

 The firft, was of a Vulturine Eagle brought out of Spain, in thefe words : 



It was of eminent Magnitude, yea, not much lefs than the Chryfaetos, but of 

 an unufual and ridiculous (hape; the Beak, not as in other Eagles, bending from 

 the root to the tip by a continual declivity, but ftreight almoft to the middle, 

 toward the point bowed into a remarkable hook, after the lame manner as 

 in Vultures, white toward the Head, the reft,, of it being black; the lower 

 Chap wholly white. The mouth within-fide [ Oris riBus "} of a Chefnut-colour. 

 The hides of the Eyes not, as in other Eagles, of a fiery colour, but whitifh 3 the 

 Pupil black. The whole Head whitiiTi, inclining to dusky \_fufcum.~] The upper 

 part of the Neck, about half way down, almoft bald, befet with very few, and thofe 

 fmall feathers, of a white colour. At the end of this bald part, almoft in the middle 

 of the Neck, grew fmall feathers like certain rough curled hairs, ftanding up above 

 the reft of the Plumage, as it were very fine (lender, long briftles 5 the like whereto it 

 had in the beginning of the back and breaft, in places juft oppofite to one another, 

 and alfo on the Rump below. On the Back was as it were a kind of hood, reaching to 

 the middle thereof, ending in a (harp peak, and refembling a Triangle. The colour 

 of the whole body was a dark Cheihut inclining to black. The Taillong 5 the Feet 

 and Legs white 5 the Claws dusky. 



The fecond was of one taken by Country men on the Alpijh Mountains of the 

 Town Giulia, as follows. From the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail it was by 

 meafure three fpans long. The Bill was long, but for the moft part covered with a 

 skin or membrane,(b that about an inch only of the tip remained bare; the hooked end 

 fmall and (lender. The Head was bald or deftitute of feathers to the hind-part, Co 

 that the feathers ftanding up behind the crown, refembled a Monks hood, put back, 

 and leaning on his neck, when he goes with his head uncovered. The colour of al- 

 moft all the feathers of the whole body was dusky, inclining to a dark Chefnut : 

 Only interrupted by a continued Series of whitifh feathers on the lower part of the 

 neck, making an acute Angle, the point running down the middle of the back, which 

 was as it were the acuminated part of the Monks hood, hanging from the (houlders 



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