RING-TAILED EAGLE. 
therefore, without scruple, reduced these two 
species to one. Aristotle has done the same 
thing, without mentioning it: but it appears 
that his translator, Theodore Gaza, perceived 
it; for he does not render Ms^aivasro?, by 
Aquila Nigra, but by Aquila Nigricans pulla 
fulvia, which includes the two varieties of 
this species, both of which are blackish, but 
the one of which is more tinged with yellow 
than the other. Aristotle, whose accuracy I 
often admire, gives names and epithets to the 
animals which he mentions. The epithet of 
this bird is Xaywtpovcr, or the Destroyer of 
Hares. In fa6t, though the other Eagles also 
prey on hares, this species is a more fatal ene- 
my to those timid animals, which are the con- 
staiit olvje61:s of their search, and the prey 
which they prefer. The Latins, after Pliny, 
termed the Eagle Valeria, quasi valens Viri- 
bus, because of it's strength; which appears 
greater than that of the other Eagles, in pio- 
portion to it's size.*' 
That both the Black and the Brown Eagle 
:orae under the denomination of Ring-Tailed, 
camiot 
