Volume 2

The gardens and menagerie of the Zoological Society delineated / Published, with the sanction of the council, under the superintendence of the secretary and vice-secretary of the society.

  • Zoological Society of London.
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The gardens and menagerie of the Zoological Society delineated / Published, with the sanction of the council, under the superintendence of the secretary and vice-secretary of the society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HALIAETUS ALBICILLA. Next to the true Eagles, whose prey is taken on the land, and whose aiery is built upon the mountains, the group of which the present species is the type, com- prehends the most powerful and the most destructive of the Raptorial Order. In common with them it forms part of a tribe distinguished from the rest of the Falconide by the absence of the tooth-like process of the beak which characterizes the Hawks and the Falcons ; by the much greater length of that organ, its straight base, and terminal curvature, contrasted with the short beaks hooked from. the very base which are common to most of the other tribes that constitute the family ; by the comparative length of the quill-feathers, BIRDS. D