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specimens were taken near De Funiak Springs, Fla., one in January 

 1896, one each on January 17 and 31, 1908, one on November 1, 1909, 

 and one on February 3, 1910. One was killed at Walnut Hill near 

 Tallahassee, Fla., on January 23, 1925, two were reported as seen 

 at close range near Fort Drum, Brevard County, Fla., on November 

 4, 1888, and another was reported as having been killed in the 

 "Alaqua section" in January 1928. One was poisoned by a sheep 

 herder near Florala, Ala., on January 17, 1908; a second specimen 

 for this State was obtained near Florence in March 1911; a third 

 was taken at Preston in November 1921; and a fourth was taken 

 December 1, 1923, near PrattviUe. Louisiana records are open to 

 question, but a specimen was alleged to have been killed near Jack- 

 son about 1904, while the State Museum in New Orleans contains 

 another presumed to be of local collection. 



Egg dates. — Arctic America : 5 records, May 27 to June 29. 



California to Texas: 272 records, February 9 to May 18; 136 

 records, February 26 to March 24. 



HALIAEETUS ALBICILLA (Linnaeus) 



GRAY SEA EAGLE 



Contributed by Francis Charles Robert Jourdain 



HABITS 



The gray sea eagle is included in the American list on the ground 

 that it is resident on the west coast of Greenland, breeding up to 

 latitude 70° N., and has also occurred as a casual on the Aleutian 

 Islands (Unalaska, October 5, 1899) and has been recorded from 

 Cumberland Sound (American Harbor, October 1877). It has also 

 occurred accidentally off the coast of Massachusetts (off Nantucket 

 Light Ship, November 14, 1914). These particulars are quoted from 

 the fourth edition of the A. O. U. check-list. 



Owing to the scarcity of material available. Dr. Ernst Hartert in 

 his work on the Palearctic fauna treated this species binomially but 

 pointed out that the Greenland race might have to be separated and 

 gave the synonymy on page 1178. Although it was known that ex- 

 ceptionally large specimens had been obtained in Greenland, the mat- 

 ter remained undecided until the publication in 1931 of the third 

 (posthumous) volume of E. Lehn Schi0ler's great work on the bii^ds 

 of Denmark. In this fine volume the results of the study of 

 Schi0ler's great collection of skins from Greenland were for the first 

 time rendered accessible to students. 



Brelim's separation of the giant Greenland race is shown to be 

 justified, although it can hardly be regarded as proved that Green- 

 land birds wander south even to the North German islands, as he 

 states. It seems more probable that winter visitors to North Ger- 



