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YERTEBRATA. 
THE BOXAL BAGiE. 
The PtOYAL Eagle or Golden Eagle, A. chrysaetos or A. fulvus, the Common Eagle of 
Europe, may be taken as the type of the 
genus : it is mostly of an obscure, blackish- 
brown color, the head and neck being of a 
golden red, from which it is named ; the tail 
is deep gray, regularly barred, and terminated 
with blackish-brown; beak fawn color, iris 
brown, cere and feet yellow; the length 
thirty-five to forty inches. It lays two to 
three eggs, of a dirty white, with reddish 
blotches; the nest is made on the shelving 
rocks of inaccessible mountain peaks, never 
upon trees ; this is wide and flat, and rudely 
made of sticks and brambles, without lining. 
There is a variety totally white ; this is the 
Falco alhus of Gmelin, or the White Eagle 
of Brisson. The Ring-tailed Eagle^ long sup- 
posed to be a distinct species, is now known 
to be a young Golden Eagle. 
{■OOT OF THE BOTAL EAGLE. 
