90 WHITE-CROWNED EAGLE. 



FraDce, but seems to be rare in other parts of 

 Europe. It feeds in the manner of the Buzzard, 

 on mice^ frogs, &c. and makes its nest on the 

 ground, among heath, broom, furze, &c. and 

 sometimes, though rarely, on tall trees. It lays 

 generally three eggs, of a grey slate-colour. The 

 female is almost entirely grey. 



WHiTE-CROWNED EAGLE. 



Falco Leucorypbos. F. cera cinerea, pedibus semilanatis aibidis, 



corpore nebuloso-fusco, macula verticis trigona gulaque tota 



alba. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Eagle with cinereous cere, half-feathered whitish legs, body 



clouded with brown, the throat white, and a white trigonal 



spot on the head. 

 Falco Leucoryphos. Pall, reise. 1. p. 454. 

 White-Crowned Eagle. Lath. syn. 



This species is described in the travels of Dr. 

 Pallas, who discovered it in the southern parts of 

 Siberia. Its size is equal to that of an Osprey, to 

 which it bears some resemblance, but the limbs 

 are longer. It measures six feet in breadth, and 

 weighs nearly six pounds. The bill is strait at 

 the base, and the cere is of a livid ash- colour, the 

 irides grey-brown, with a black outer circle: the 

 head grey-brown, with a triangular white spot on 

 the crown 5 the throat white ; the sides of the head 

 darker than the rest, as in the Osprey: the upper 

 part of the body is of a clouded brown colour ^ the 

 parts beneath the same, but paler: the second 



