Identifier: britishzoology01penn (find matches)
Title: British zoology
Year: 1776 (1770s)
Authors: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Subjects: Zoology -- Great Britain
Publisher: Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for B. White, London
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
h charadler it maintainsthrough every frage of life, and in all countrieswhere it is found. The legs are feathered to thefeet: the toes yellow, the claws black. Mr. JVil-lughhy gives the following very curious account ofthe neil of this fpecie^ p. 21.K E s T. In the year of our Lord 1668, in the woodlands near the river Derwent^ in the Peak o^ Berhyjhire^ * was found an eagles ncft made of great flicks,f refling one end on the edge of a rock, the other on two birch trees; upon which was a layer of rufhes, and over them a layer of heath, and up- * on the heath rulhes again -, upon which lay one young one, and an addle egg ; and by them a lamb, a hare, and three heath poults. The neil was about two yards fquare, and had no hollow in it. The young eagle was black as a hoWSy, of the fhape of a gofhawk, of almoft the wei^^ht of a soofe, rou^h footed, or feathered down to the foot: having a white ring about the tail. Mr. Willughhy imagines, his firft pygargus^ or white Pi.✌️vii SEA EAGI^E.
Text Appearing After Image:
Class II. S E A E A G L E. 167 white tailed eagle, p. 61. to be but a variety ofthis, having the fame charadleriftic mark, and dif-fering only in the pale color of the head. The antients believed, that the pebble, com-monly called the ^//V^j*, or eagle (lone, was form-ed in the eagles neft; and that the eggs could notbe hatched without its affiftance. Many abfurdftories have been raifed about this foflil, which (asit bears but an imaginary relation to the eagle)mud be omitted in a zoologic work. Bein-brecher, Offifraga, MeeV- Sea eagle. Dales Harn,vkh. ^^^ Sea Ea- adler, Fifch-arn, Haliaeetos. 396. gle. Gefnsr a-j, 201. 203. Martins hift. Wejl. ijles 70. Halistos. Turneri. Le grand aigle de mer. Brif- Auguifta barhata, Oflifraga. /on av. i. 437. JUr. a-o. i. 118. Sea eagle. Br, Zool. 6^. PI- Haliseetos. Plinii lib. 10. c. 3. £nL 112. 415. SiS, hijl. Scot. 14. Falco offifragus. Un. ^-Jf. Sea eagle, or olprey, WiL cm, 124. -g Gaafe orn. Brminich 13. Raiifyn, a^v. 7. LOrfrair. HiJl, doy

Note About Images