. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . tail, andfrom four to five in the expanse of its wings. No other individual, exceptthat which is now in the Zoological Societys Collection, has, we believeever been in Europe; and even in cabinets, the stuffed skin appears to beof considerable rarity. It was first made known to science by M. whom we are indebted for the earliest descriptions of so many South 1 Halicctus aguia, Temm. AVES—EAGLE. 451 American animals, as well as for the most authentic de
. The naturalist's library; containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; . tail, andfrom four to five in the expanse of its wings. No other individual, exceptthat which is now in the Zoological Societys Collection, has, we believeever been in Europe; and even in cabinets, the stuffed skin appears to beof considerable rarity. It was first made known to science by M. whom we are indebted for the earliest descriptions of so many South 1 Halicctus aguia, Temm. AVES—EAGLE. 451 American animals, as well as for the most authentic details with respect totheir native habits. In the present instance he has unfortunately given u»no such particulars ; and as no other zoologist has seen the living bird in astate of nature, we can but judge from analogy that its manners are the samewith those of the best known species of its genus. A figure taken from apreserved specimen, has been lately published by M. Temminck, in hissplendid Planches Colorizes; and the description which accompanies it, isthe only original notice of the bird subsequent to that of M. The latter author, or rather his French translator, names it laiglenoiratre et blanc. He states, that it is found, but not frequently, in Para-guay, and that it is generally seen in pairs. The feathers of the head, neck,and upper part of the body, are, according to his description, of a blackishblue, and, with the exception of those of the back, terminated by dirty tail is blackish, with small whitish spots scattered over its surface , theupper wing-coverts ash colored, with blackish stems and transverse lines ofthe same ; and the large coverts, as w» X. as the quill-feathers, of a deeperash, variegated with narrow black bands. The whole under surface isbeautifully white, with transverse blackish lines on the under tail-coverts,and larger wing-coverts alone j the smaller wing-coverts having no otherpart but their stems of this sombre tinge. T
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