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NOETH AMERICAN EAGLES. 



This species breeds throughout its range wherever suitable places 

 exist, and it has been known to l&j and hatch eggs in confinement. 

 In the southern part of the United States, from Florida to Texas, it 

 breeds very early, depositing its eggs usuaih^ during the first half of 

 December, exceptionally about the 1st of Xovember, occasionally in 



Fig. 1.— Breeding range of the bald eagle {Halixelus leucocephalus). 



January or February; in the Middle States and in California it lays 

 in February or March, and to the northward correspondingly later — 

 about the middle of April in southern Alaska, sometimes in May, or 

 even June, in the Arctic regions. 



