82 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Essex, adult female (in coll. of J. H. S.) ; Oct. i, 1896, Wood- 

 bridge, one female shot (in coll. of A, E. V.) ;^ Nov. 20, 1896, 

 East Haven, young male trapped (in coll. of L. C. S.) ; Jan. 19, 

 1897, Salem, adult male trapped (in coll. of C. L. R.) f Oct. 9, 

 1909, East Haven (in coll. of L. C. S.). 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linnaeus). Bald 

 Eagle. 



A rather rare spring and fall migrant and occasional summer 

 resident; formerly bred in more unsettled parts of the state, 

 possibly a few still breeding. 



Earliest record. New Haven, April 17, 1885 ; Portland, April 

 25, 1889; South Glastonbury, March 16, 1899 (seen by J. H. S.). 



Latest record. New Haven, Sept. 10, 1883, Nov. 20, 1875 

 (Merriam).^ 



Winter records. Jan. 26, Feb. 25, 1891, Stamford (Hoyt) ; 

 Dec. 25, 1893, Middletown (J. H. S.). 



Summer records. Numbers of this species have been seen 

 during jSIay, June, July, and August, at various places in the state 

 (Deep River, Haddam Neck, Litchfield, Middle Haddam, Middle- 

 town, New Haven, North Haven, Portland, Saybrook, Stratford, 

 Stevenson) in 1880, 1882, 1883, 1886, 1888, 1890, 1891, 1905. 



Breeding record. Job records* that " Late in April, about a 

 dozen years ago (1896), Mr. Williams found in Winsted a nest 

 on a rocky ledge which contained two good-sized young. 

 Several years previously he had found another nest in an un- 

 climbable tree, and also has seen young which could not have 

 been raised far off." 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus alascanus C. H. Townsend. 

 Northern Bald Eagle. 



A young female was shot near Willimantic, Oct. 27, 1909, 

 by G. H. Champlin, and sent to L. B. B, in the flesh by C. R. H. 

 That the majority of Connecticut Bald Eagles belong to this 

 subspecies, is the belief of L. B. B. 



1 Axih, xiv, I, p. 89. 



^Auk, xiv, 2, p. 215. 



'Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 90. 



♦Job, The Sport of Bird Study, p. 297 



