. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 204 AQUILA CHRYSAETUS. THE GOLDEN EAGLE. BLACK EAGLE. RING-TAILED EAGLE. BROWN EAGLE. lOLAIR Falco Chrysaetos. Linn, Syst. Na(. I, l-J.). fulvus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 12,5. Chrysaetos. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 12. fulvus. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 10. Eagle. Mont. Oiu. Diet. Eagle. Moat.
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . 204 AQUILA CHRYSAETUS. THE GOLDEN EAGLE. BLACK EAGLE. RING-TAILED EAGLE. BROWN EAGLE. lOLAIR Falco Chrysaetos. Linn, Syst. Na(. I, l-J.). fulvus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 12,5. Chrysaetos. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 12. fulvus. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 10. Eagle. Mont. Oiu. Diet. Eagle. Moat. Orn. Diet. Eoyal. Falco fulvus. Temm. Man. dOrn. Eagle, Aquila Chrysaiitus. Selb. Cbrysaetus. Golden Eagle. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. Tail slightly rounded, longer than the wings ; the generalcolour brown ; the feathers of the head, neck, tarsus, and innerpart of tibia light yelloicish-broicn, the tail broicnish-black, moreor less variegated icith grey. Young dark-broicn, with the basalhalf of the tail ichite. The Golden Eagle, which, with the excejotion of the White-tailed Sea-Eagle, is the largest of our Raptores, is the only GOLDEN EAGLE. 205 bird of its genus that occurs in Britain. The disparity be-tween the male and the female is as great as in any species ofthis family, some individuals of the former measuri
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