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ELACK-BACKED EAGLE. 



Falco melanotus. F, fusco-ferrugineus, gula pectore dorsoque 



nigris, cauda nigra basi alba. 

 Brown-ferruginous Eagle, with the throat, breast, and back 



black, the tail black with a white base. 

 Black-Backed Eagle. Brown's Illustrations of Zoology, pi, 2. 



Lath, synops. 



Said to be of the size of the Golden Eagle ; and 

 is of similar colour, but with the fore part of the 

 neck and breast, the back and quills black : the 

 tail, from the base to the middle, white; the end- 

 half black: the bill black, with a yellow cere, 

 the legs yellow, but covered to the toes with 

 ferruginous feathers. Native place unknown. 

 Described merely from a figure in Brown's Illustra- 

 tions of Zoology, and, as Sonnini very properly 

 observes, may be no other than a mere variety of 

 the Black Eagle, (Aigle Commun Buff.) It is at 

 all times dangerous to describe animals merely 

 from figures, unless we could be well assured that 

 the artist was himself a Zoologist. 



