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ELACK-GHEEKED EACILE. 



Falco Americanus. F. niger, capite collo pedorequc citiereis, 



fascia genarum transversa nigra. 

 Black Eagle^ with the head, neck, and breast cinereous, and « 



black bar across the cheeks, 

 Black-Cheeked Eagle. Penn. Arct, Zool. Lath, synops, 

 Falco Americanus. Lath, ind.orn. Lin.Syst, Nat. GmeL 



Size of Falco fulvus. Head, neck, and breast 

 deep ash-colour : each cheek marked with a broad 

 black bar, passing from the corner of the mouth 

 beyond the eyes : back, belly, wings, and tail 

 black: bill lead-coloured; legs yellow, and fea- 

 thered below the knees. Native of North America, 

 and suspected by Mr. Pennant to be the species 

 figured by Robert, among the Birds of the Menagery 

 of Louis the fourteenth. 



CHINESE EAGLE. 



Falco Sinensis. F. ferrvgineits, svhtus Jlatescens, alts caudaqm 



fiiscofasciatis, cera pedibusque fiavis. 

 Ferruginous Eagle^ yellowish beneath, with the wings and tail 



barred with brown, and yellow cere and legs, 

 Chinese Eagle. Lath. syn. 



Described and figured by Mr. Latham from a 

 Chinese drawing lent him by Mr. Pennant. Size 

 said to be little inferior to that of an Eagle: colour 

 of the head and all the upper parts ferruginous. 



