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eagle has more white in the basal half of the tail than the first year 

 bald eagle. Older bald eagles show more or less white on the breast 

 and belly, which the golden eagle never shows. Both species show 

 more or less white in the immature tail, but the bald does not have 

 h^uch a distinct dark band as the golden. I have noticed also that 

 the head and neck of the bald eagle are stretched out much longer in 

 llight than in any of the other hawks or eagles, except the caracara. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — North America and northeastern Siberia; casual in Ber- 

 muda, accidental in Sweden. 



Breeding range. — The bald eagle breeds north to northeastern Si- 

 beria (Bering Island) ; Alaska (Noatak River) ; Mackenzie (junc- 

 tion of the Peel and Mackenzie Rivers, Fort Anderson, Mc- 

 Tavish Bay, and Artillery Lake) ; ISIanitoba (Fort Churchill) ; and 

 probably Ungava (Ungava Bay). East to probably Ungava (Un- 

 gava Bay) ; southeastern Quebec (Wolf Bay and Anticosti Island) ; 

 Newfoundland (Placentia Bay) ; Nova Scotia (probably Baddeck, 

 Pictou, Grand Lake, Tangier, and Halifax) ; Maine (Deer Isle and 

 Bath) ; Connecticut (formerly) ; New Jersey (Redbank, Sea Isle 

 City, and Cape May) ; Virginia (Kilmarnock, Cobbs Island, Newport 

 News, and probably Dismal Swamp) ; North Carolina (Cape Hat- 

 teras and Fort Macon) ; South Carolina (Waverly Mills, Cedar 

 Island, Mount Pleasant, and Frogmore) ; Georgia (Savannah, Black- 

 beard Island, Darien, and St. Marys) ; and Florida (Allendale, Lake 

 Monroe, Titusville, Merritts Island, probably Micco, probably Lake 

 Worth, Miami, Cape Sable, and Key West). South to Florida 

 (Key West, Tampa, Tarpon Springs, Wliitfield, and Pensacola) ; 

 Alabama (Perdido Bay) ; Mississippi (probably Biloxi) ; Louisiana 

 (New Orleans, Avery Island, Mermenton, and Black Bayou) ; Texas 

 (Belleville, Corpus Christi, and San Angelo) ; Arizona (Salt River 

 Bird Reservation and Fort Whipple) ; and Lower California (San 

 Francisco Island, Espiritu Santos Island, and Santa Margarita 

 Island).^ West to Lo%ver California (Santa Margarita Island, 

 Todos Santos Island, Laguna Hanson, and Guadalupe Canyon) ; 

 California (San Clemente Island, Santa Catalina Island, Santa 

 Rosa Island, Santa Barbara Island, Tulare Lake, Santa Clara 

 County, Sacramento, Eagle Lake, and Tule Lake) ; Oregon (Fort 

 Klamath, Bandon, Elkton, and probably near Astoria) ; Wash- 

 ington (Olympic Mountains, Quillayute Needles, and Neah Bay) ; 



* The bald eagle also has been reported south to "central Mexico", and this statement 

 has been repeated by many authors. A careful search of the literature and the files of 

 the Biological Survey has failed to disclose any authentic records for this part of the 

 continent. Nevertheless, it is to be expected that the species may occasionally breed on 

 the coast of Tamaulipas and possibly rarely at interior points. — F. C. L. 



