CROWNED EAGLE. 
or bluck. In sliort, the sole difFerence con- 
sisis In the disposition of the colours, and in the 
shades of the plumage ; which bear no com- 
parison to the points of conformity. I shall 
not hesitate, therefore," adds BufFon, " to con- 
sider the birds of the Coasts of Africa, as of 
the same species with that of Brasil ; and, that 
the Crowned Eagle of Brasil, the Oronooco 
Eagle, the Peruvian Eagle, and the Crowned 
Eagle of Guinea, are all the same individual, 
and have the nearest resemblance to the Spotted 
or Rough- Footed Eagle of Europe." 
In a note, by the translator of BufFon's N a- 
luial History of Birds, it is observed, that 
*' Linnaeus ranges this bird — [the Oronooco 
f^agle] — with tiie Vulture ; Gmelin, with tlic 
Falcon ; and both apply the epithet Harpy la : 
Latham calls it, the Crested Vulture. It is 
said to cleave a Man's skull with one stroke of 
it's bill, and to be as large as a Ram. There 
is a variety of this in New Grenada, which 
has a black crest, a white belly, thighs spotted 
white, and the tail, which is loug, variegated 
wltii white and black. When young, it can 
be tamed." 
