RAPACIOUS. 
3 . 
the Eagles, properly fo called, feldom more than two or three : 
Drink feldom ; the juices of their animal-food preventing 
third. Capable of enduring very long abftinence. Very long 
lived. Are clamorous ; their note puling and plaintive. 
Strike their prey with their feet. Their excrements white and 
fluid. Vomit up the indigefted hair or feathers of their prey, 
in form of a round ball. Vary in the color of their plumage 
at different ages ; fo the fpecies are often unneceflarily multi- 
plied by Ornithologifts. Inhabit every climate. 
Mr. Ray and M. Brijfon feparate the Eagles from the Falcons. 
The firft has VIII fpecies of Eagles, and XXV of Falcons or 
Hawks. The lafl, XV of Eagles, and XXXVII of Falcons. 
Linnaeus, who, with much propriety, places both in one genus, 
enumerates thirty-two. Mr. Ray’s divifion of the fluggifh, 
and of the more adtive and generous, a very judicious one. 
Bill, hooked; bafe covered with briftles; no cere. jjj a 0 
Nostrils, oblong. 
Tongue, cleft at the end. 
Eyes, very large and protuberant, furrounded by a circle of 
feathers. 
Head, very large and round ; full of feathers. 
Ears, large and open. 
Outmost Toe, verfatile, or capable of being turned back, fo 
as to adt with the back toe. 
Claws, hooked and fharp. 
Eagle Owl, Br. Zool. I. tab . XXIX. Owls. Latham’s Syn. of 
Birds. PI. 5. 
A nodturnal Bird, preys in the evening and by night ; often flies 
along 
