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FALCO FULVUS. 
cream colour, minutely sprinkled with specks of aslu 
aud dusky, and ending in a hroad band of deep dark 
brown, of nearly one-third its length ; chin, cheeks, aim 
throat, black ; whole lorver parts, a deep dark bron'O) 
except the vent and inside of the thighs, which arr 
white, stained with brown ; legs thickly covered to the 
feet with broivnish white down, or feathers ; claws, blacki 
veiy large, sharp, and formidable, the hind one full tn’O 
inches long. 
The ring-tail eagle is found in Russia, Switzerland! 
Germany, France, Scotland, and the northern parts o> 
America. As Marco Polo, in his description of the 
mistoms of the Tartars, seems to allude to this specieSi 
it may be said to inhabit the whole circuit of the arctu’ 
regions of the globe. The golden eagle, on the contrary 
is said to be found only in the more n arm and temperate 
countries of the ancient continent. Later discoveries! 
however, have ascertained it to be also an inhabitant n* 
the United States. 
SCBGENUS II. BALralTOS, S.\ VIGNY. 
4. FALCO LEOCOCEFBALVS, tINN. WIIITE-HEADEn, OR EAlO 
EAGLE,* WILSON. 
WILSON, PLATE XXXVI. -j- EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This distinguished bird, as he is the most beautif*^ 
of his tribe in this part of the world, and the adopted 
emblem of oiir country, is entitled to particular notice* 
• The cpitliet hald, appliid to this spocies, whose head is thieW 
covered with feathers, is equally improper and ali«iird with th^ 
titles goatsucker, kiiigsfisher, &c. bestowed or, others ; and seeia 
to have been occasioned by the white n]ipearance of the head, 'vb® 
contrasted with the dark colour of the rest of the plumage. Th 
appellation, however, being now almost universid, is retained in th 
following pages. 
f This plate represents the adult bird. 
