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Adult female. — Wing 648; tail|320; culmen from cere 70; tarsus 

 102; middle toe without claw 82 mm. (1 specimen). 



Range. — Breeds in northeastern Siberia (Yakutsk, Avatcha Bay, 

 Gichiga), Kamchatka (Petropaulski) and the countries bordering the 

 Okhotsk Sea, and Sakhalin Island (Nilvolski; Korsakoff). 



Winters south to Korea, Japan (Hokkaido, Hondo, Shikoku, 

 South Island of Satsuma, Koshii, Yezo), Kurile Island, Sakhalin 

 Island, the Eiu-Kiu Islands, Amurland, and Ussuriland. 



Casual on Bering Island, the Aleutian Islands (Unalaska), the 

 Pribilof Islands (St. Paul), and Kodiak Island; one record for eastern 

 China (Peking). 



Type locality. — Islands between Kamchatka and America. 



Aquila pelagica Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., i, 1826, 343, p. [9] (Kamchatka; 

 Aleutian Islands; based on White Eagle Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii, 1785, 197; 

 White-bellied Eagle Latham, Synop. Birds, i, 1781, 33). — Kittlitz, Kupfert, 

 i, 1832, 1, pi. ii, fig. 1; in Lutke, Voy. Arct. Monde, Atlas, Part, hist., pi. xiii, 

 Denkw., i, 1858, 330, ii, 1858, 364.— Middendorf, Sibir. Reis., ii, 1853, 125.— 

 Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, 183 (Yezo, Japan; crit.). 



Haliaetus (Thallassactus) pelagicus Kaup, Mus. Senckenb., iii, 1845, 261. 



Haliaetus -pelagicus Kaup, in Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 74. — Cassin, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vi, 1853, 452; lUustr. Birds California, Texas, 

 etc., 1854, 31, 110, pi. 6; in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 42; 

 Birds North Amer., 1860 ed., 42. — Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool., vi, 1854, 

 632. — Baird, Cat. North Amer, Birds, 1859, No. 40. — Schlegel, Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, ii. No. 3, livr. 1, 1862, 14 (monogr.); No. 36, livr. 10, 1873, 117.— 

 Eliot, New and Unfig. North Amer. Birds, pt. 6, 1867 (vol. 2), pi. 34 and 

 text. — SwiNHOE, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1871, 339 (Peking, China). — 

 RiDGWAY, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. Birds, iii, 

 1874, 322, 323.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, 1874, 306 (Kamchatka).— 

 BLAKiSTONand Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 247 (Koshui, Japan). — Bolau, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1892, 173 (crit.).— Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 398. 



Haliaetus pelagica Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., i, 1850, 15. 



Haliaetos pelagica Homeyer, Journ. fiir Orn., 1868, 248 (e. Siberia). — Taczanow- 

 SKi, Journ. fiir Orn., 1876, 190 (Ussuri-land). 



Haliaeetus pelagicus Gray, Hand-list, 1, 1870, 17, No. 146. — Ridgway, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, xxii, 1870, 143. — Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, ii, 

 1914, 1178 (monogr.); Nov. Zool., xxvii, 1920, 150 (Commander Islands). — 

 Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 258.— La Touche, Handb. 

 Birds Eastern China, ii, 1932, 170 (Chili, China; one rec. ; descr.). — Bergman, 

 Kenntn. Nordostasiat. Vog., 1935, 99 (Kamchatka; spec; plum.; habits). 



Haliaeetus pelagicus pelagicus Swann, Synopt. List Accip., pt. 3, 1920, 91. — 

 Yamashina, Journ. fiir Orn., Ixxix, 1931, 517 (Kurile Islands). — Bergman, 

 Kenntn. Nordostasiat. Vog., 1935, 223 (Kurile Islands, spec; habits). — 

 Stegmann, Faune U. R. S. S., Oiseaux, i. No. 5, Falconiformes, 1937, 143, 276 

 (crit.; descr.; Kamchatka; Okhotsk Sea; Sakhalin; Amurland; winters south 

 to Riu-Kiu Islands and Japan). 



Thalassaetus pelagicus Gurney, Ibis, 1878, 452; List Diurn. Birds Prey, 1884, 58; 

 Cat. Birds Prey, 1894, 23.— Stejneger, Naturen, 1884, 7, text fig. (Kam- 

 chatka). — Menzbier, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xi, 1900, 4 (Yakutsk, e. Si- 

 beria). — Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxxviii, 1910, 57 (Unalaska Island, 



