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FALCO OSSIFRAGUS. 
SEA EAGLE. 
Cere and legs yellow; legs somewhat 
downy ; body ferruginous ; tail feathers white 
on the inner side. 
Falco Ossifragus, Lin. Gme. 
L'Orfraie, Buffon. 
Sea Eagle, Will. Lath. Pen. Don. Shaw. 
Bew. Mont. 
It will be observed, that our figure does 
not exactly correspond with the specific cha- 
racter given by Linnaeus, the tail feathers 
not being white on the inner side ; but we 
pledge ourselves for the correctness of the 
drawing in that respect, having had several 
specimens to compare, and not less than 
three during the spring of the present year, 
(1815.) 
A beautiful specimen of the male of this 
bird was shot at Gunton, in the county of 
Norfolk, in the month of February, from 
which our drawing was made. It measured 
two feet nine inches in length and seven feet 
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