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found east of the Oregon mountains, 
which is very fierce, and often kills 
large animals, wild sheep and goats 
by jumping on their necks and cut- 
ting the flesh and arteries, until 
they fall. Is it a new species? 
Felis macrura , Raf. Entirely of a 
sallow color, tail as long as the body ? 
which is from 1 to 2 feet long only. 
10. Ornithology. — Description of 
a new Eagle from South America, 
Aquila dicrony x or Macarran Ea- 
gle. By C.,8. R. 
Mr. Macarran of Philadelphia has 
had for 5 years in his small menage- 
rie and botanic garden, a beautiful 
eagle, kept alive in a cage in the open 
air during the coldest winters, being 
a native of the cold climate of An- 
tartic America. He was found by 
the mate of a vessel -near Buenos 
Ayres, while yet young, feeding on ! 
a dead horse, and taken alive with- 
out much difficulty. He has grown 
and improved in colors since bought 
by Mr. Macarran. Although fierce 
and wanting to fly against the boys 
when they annoy him, he is very 
tame and grateful towards his keep- 
er: he knows him as well as friendly 
visiters, and greets them by peculiar 
postures, looks or cries. He has se- 
veral kinds of cries rather harsh, to 
express joy or anger. He feeds on 
every kind of flesh, offals or even 
fish and dead animals. He will kill 
rats and eat them. He is a beauti- 
ful noble bird, when he expands the 
wipgs they fill his large cage. His 
gait is clumsy and he oftener jumps 
than walks. 
I have called him Aquila dicr onyx 
from the singularity of claws of two 
colors. 
Aq. dicrony x. spec.ch. Bill horny, 
feet yellow, claws black, but the 
middle claw horny or whitish; plu- 
mage blackish, head greyish, tail 
whitish, end of it rusty. 
^Description.—' Total length 3 feet, 
wings expanded, 9 feet; bill large 
strong 4 inches long, shaped as in 
the eagles, of a hornv or whitish-vel- 
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lowish color; cere and lore brownish; 
eyes black and bright, iris yellow; 
head greyish above and across the 
eyes, nearly white beneath and above 
the eyes; feathers nearly black with 
a lead colored cast, white at their 
base; wings slate colored beneath; 
Uropygial feathers mixt of black 
and grey. Tail with a rusty band 
at the end. Feet yellow very strong, 
feathers not quite to the toes. Claws 
strong and black, that of the middle 
toe same color as the bill. 
When younger this bird was en- 
tirely of a bluish black, or dark lead 
color, the head and tail have since 
changed, but the rusty band of the 
tail and claws were permanent and 
are preeminent distinctions between 
this eagle and the whitehead eagle. 
Mr. Audubon admired this eagle 
and wanted to purchase him; but Mr. 
Macarran would not take less than 
§100 for him. 
II.Erpetology. — On the Salaman- 
der of the hills of East Kentucky. 
S.lurida . by C. S. R. 
I discovered in 1823 a new land 
salamander in my excursion to the 
falls of the river Cumberland, dwel- 
ling in the hills near that river in 
East Kentucky, among logs and 
rubbish in woods. 
It is a sluggish and ugly animal, 
but rare and not easily detected 
among dried leaves, being of a dull 
color, only 3 or 4 inches long. 
Salamandralurida . Entirely grey 
with two rows of black spots on the 
back, tail as long as the body with 
blackish rings, belly whitish. The 
tail is rounded as in the land sala- 
manders, and the toes are 4 and 5 
as in the whole genus. 
I take tins opportunity to state 
that my sal. or sp. lucifugci of Jast 
No. is different from the Salamandra 
longicauda of Green, having com- 
pared them, I find by specimens of 
this last, that the dots are larger, 
fewer, rounded, and lacking be- 
neath; head smaller not so flat, 
mouth smaller with minute acute 
