PLAINTIVE EAGLE. 
cies. They hold, as this does, both in appear- 
ance and manners, a middle rank, between the 
Vultures and the Eagles : the head is not so 
naked as in the Vultures, and the bill is less 
hooked than that of the Eagles. Li' the lat- 
ter, they destroy living animal' fre- 
quently, like the former, devour carno. Our 
Plaintive Eagle, therefore, seems to be, m a t 
the Falco Gypaetus Plancus, or Plaintive 
tard-Eagle, of the Linnaean System. It 
about two feet and a half long. The Bill 
black ; and the cere, which extends almost to 
the point, as well as the space round the orbits, 
the naked sides of the head, or straps, with the 
legs and feet, are orange-coloured, or yellow. 
The wings are brown; the tip of the tail, and 
the claws, are black. 
It's specific character is, that the hind part 
of the head is crested ; the sides of the head, 
and the neck, are naked ; that the breast, and the 
upper parts of the body, are barred with brown 
and white; that the under parts of the body 
are white ; and, that the tail is also white, but 
marked with tranverse black bands. 
