TOENCH EAGLE. 89 



With a broad dusky bar across the wing-coverts, 

 and two or three across the tail: quill-feathers 

 dusky : bill black : thighs clothed with long fea- 

 thers, feet and cere yellow : the whole under part 

 of the bird is yellowish buff-colour, and its habit 

 or general shape seems to resemble that of the 

 larger Falcons. In another drawing which Mr. 

 Latham observed in a collection on sale, was a 

 figure which seemed to be the same bird with some 

 variations; the head being furnished with a va- 

 riegated crest, and the under parts with ^black 

 markings. 



FRENCH EAGLE* 



^ Falco Gallicus. F. rostro cinereo, pedibus mdis flavicaiittbm, 

 corpore griseo-fusco, suhtus (mari) albido, maculis rufescente- 

 fuscis. Lath. ind. orn. 



igle with cinereous bill, naked yellowish legs^ and grey-brown 

 body, (in the male white beneath, with rufous-browu 

 spots.) 



l^ean Le Blanc. Bvff. ois. Lath.syn. Fl, Enl. 4>]3* 



This, says Mr. Latham, does not fall far short 

 of the Black Eagle, its length being two feet one 

 inch. The colour of the bill is cinereous; the 

 irides yellow; the parts above grey-brown; beneath 

 Miiite, spotted with rufous brown : the outsides 

 and tips of the tail-feathers are brown, within whiter 

 transversly streaked with brown : legs yellowish, 

 naked ; claws cinereous. This bird ig common in 



