A history of British birds - the figures engraved on wood (1809) (14769731673)

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Title: A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood

Year: 1809 (1800s)

Authors: Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828 Beilby, Ralph, 1744-1817 Cotes, Henry

Subjects: Birds

Publisher: Newcastle : Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick

Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System

Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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BRITISH BIRDS. 49

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IW^^^-**^** THE RINGTAILED EAGLE. (^Falco Fulvus, Lin.—UAlgh. Commun. Buff.) This is the common Eagle of Buffon, and, accordingto that author, includes two varieties, the Brown andthe Black Eagle; they are both of the same brown colour,distinguished only by a deeper shade, and are nearly 50 BRITISH BIRDS. of the same size: in both, the upper part of the headand neck is mixed with rust colour, and the base of thelarger feathers marked with white ; the bill is of a darkhorn colour; the cere of a bright yellow; the iris hazel;and between the bill and the eye there is a naked skin ofa dirty brown colour: the legs are feathered to the toes,which are yellow, and the claws black : the tail is dis-tinguished by a white ring, which covers about two-tliirds of its length ; the remaining part is black. The Ringtailed Eagle is more numerous and diffusedthan the Golden Eagle, and prefers more northern cli-mates. It is found in France, Germany, Switzerland,Great Britain, and in America as far nor

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