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NISSER, or GOLDEN EAGLE. 



I HAVE ventured from his colour to call this bird the 

 Golden Eagle, by way of diftinction, as its Ethiopic 

 name, NifTer, is only a generic one, and imports no more 

 than the Englifh name, Eagle. He is called by the vulgar 

 Abou Duch'n, or Father Long Beard, which we may ima- 

 gine was given him from the tuft of hair he has below his 

 beak. 



I suppose him to be not only the largeft.of the eagle kind., 

 hut furely one of the largeft birds that flies. From wing 

 to wing he was 8 feet 4 inches. From the tip of his tail to 

 the point of his beak when dead, 4 feet 7 inches. He weigh- 

 ed 22 pounds, was very full of flelh. He feemed remark- 

 ably fhort in the legs, being only four inches from the 

 joining of the foot to where the leg joins the thigh, and 

 from the joint of the thigh to the joining of his body 6 

 Vol. V. Y ^ inches^ 



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