. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 168 AVES. [Tbe Golden Eagle (F. , Lin.), the Grecian Eagle (A. Heliaca, f^^^^l/^'Z"tt^UtTe\X sitted Eagle ,F. and macuMus, ), the ^^^^^^:^-^;::::^Z^::^^^.:.. ccssively decrease in size in the order announced ; the last-named being smaller than a Common Buzzard.] New Holland produces Eagles of similar form to those of Europe, the tail excepted, which is cuneiform. Such is the Wedge-tailed Eagle (, Cuv.). [Tliere are many others.] We should remark that the transition from the Eagles to t
. Cuvier's animal kingdom : arranged according to its organization. Animals. 168 AVES. [Tbe Golden Eagle (F. , Lin.), the Grecian Eagle (A. Heliaca, f^^^^l/^'Z"tt^UtTe\X sitted Eagle ,F. and macuMus, ), the ^^^^^^:^-^;::::^Z^::^^^.:.. ccssively decrease in size in the order announced ; the last-named being smaller than a Common Buzzard.] New Holland produces Eagles of similar form to those of Europe, the tail excepted, which is cuneiform. Such is the Wedge-tailed Eagle (, Cuv.). [Tliere are many others.] We should remark that the transition from the Eagles to the Buzzards is effected by insensible gradations, [the typical Buzzards being merely small-sized Eagles, with weaker armature]. The Ernes {Haliœetus, Cuv.) Have wings resembling those of the preceding, but the tarsi clothed only on its upper half with feathers, the remainder being semi-scutellated. [Their beak also is longer and larger.] They frequent the shores of rivers and of the sea, and subsist in great part upon fish [without disdaining carrion, like the true Eagles. The Cinereous Erne (F. albicilla, Lin.) of Europe, and the American White-headed Erne (K leucocephalus, Lin. fig. 75) are characteristic examples. There are also some of small size, as the bird commonly termed the Pondi- cherry Kite (F. ponticerianus, Gm.), which the Hindoos consider sacred to Vishnu. The Cunduma of Hodgson is merely a large Haliceetus].. Tifr. 75.—White-headed Erne. The Ospreys {Pandion, Savigny)— _ Have [somewhat] the beak and feet of the Ernes ; but their talons are round underneath, while m other Birds of prey [save in the tnie Elanq they are grooved or channelled ; their tarsi are reticulated, and the second [third] quiU of their wings is longest. Their sternum (fig. 76). differs from that of other Falcons (see fig. 72) in becoming narrower towards its posterior margin, where a notch exists analogous to the inner emargination of the Gallinazos, but not to the foramen observable in t
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