BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 495 



(?) Falco washingtonii Audubon," Birds Amer., folio ed., 1827, pi. 11 (Havell 

 engr.); Orn. Biogr., Philadelphia ed., i, 1831, 58, pi. 11 (near Henderson, 

 Ky.). — Jameson, ed. Wilson's Amer. Orn., iv, 1831, 261. — Brewer, ed. 

 Wilson's Amer. Orn., 1852, 683. — Read, Proc. x\cad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vi, 1853, 396 (Ohio). 



Falco washingtoniana Audubon, Mag. Nat. Hist., i, 1828, 115. 



Falco washingtonianus Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Land 

 Birds, 1832, 67. 



Haliaetus washingtoni Jardine, ed. Wilson's Amer. Orn., ii, 1832, 92. — Peabody, 

 Rep. Orn. Massachusetts, 1839, 262. — Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 10; Birds 

 Amer., 8vo ed., i, 1840, 50, pi. 13. 



HaliaHos washingtoni Bonaparte, Geogr. and Comp. List, 1838, 3. 



Haliaehis washingtonii Nuttall, Man. Orn. United States and Canada, Land 

 Birds, ed. 2, 1840, 70.— Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vi, 1853, 

 452 (Kentucky); Illustr. Birds California, Texas, etc., 1854, 110; in Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 42 (New Jersey). — Hoy, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, vi, 1853, 305 (Wisconsin). — Strickland, Orn. Syn., 1, 

 1855, 51. — Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., i, 1856, 225 (Massachusetts). — 

 Baird, Cat. North Amer. Birds, 1859, No. 41. — Allen, Amer. Nat., iv, 

 1870, 525 (crit.). — Jarvis, Amer. Nat., iv, 1870, 524 (crit.). — Coues, Amer. 

 Nat., v, 1871, 187, 237 (crit.).— Gilpin, Amer. Nat., vii, 1873, 429 (tarsal 

 envelope). — Kirtland, Proc. Cleveland Acad. Sci., 1874, 214 (Ohio). — 

 Wheaton, Rep. Birds Ohio, 1882, 436 (Ohio: syn.). 



Pandion washingtonii Haymond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1856, 286. 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoni Bangs, Auk, xv, 189S, 174 (crit.). 



Haliaeetus leucocephalus washingtoniensis Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 

 1931, 258.— Compton, Univ. California Publ. ZooL, xlii, 1938, 176, 184 

 (pterylosis). — Trautman, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 44, 

 1940, 27 (Buckeye Lake, Ohio; habits; rare migr. and winter). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Auk, Ixi, 1944, 445 (nomencl.). — Behle, Condor, 

 xlvi, 1944, 71 (Utah; may winter). — Haecker, Moser, and Swenk, Nebraska 

 Bird Rev., xiii, 1945, 9 (Nebraska; probable rare winter vis. and migr.). — 

 Loomis, Auk, Ixii, 1945, 237 (Newfoundland and Labrador). — McAllister 

 and Marshall, Auk, Ixii, 1945, 183 (Fremont National Forest, Oreg.). — 

 Palmer and Taber, Auk, Ixiii, 1946, 304 (Mount Katahdin region, Maine). — 

 Arvey, Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, i, 1947, 199 (Idaho). 



Haliaeetus sp. Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 67 (Bering Island, 

 Kamchatka) . 



Halisetus leucocephalus alascanus Townsend, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xi, 

 1897, 145 (Unaslaka Island, Alaska; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Preble, North 

 Amer. Fauna, No. 27, 1908, 360 (wooded region of British America, n. at 

 least to Great Slave Lake; localities). — Clark, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xxxviii, 1910, 58 (Vancouver, Unalaska, and Atka Islands). — Gianini, Auk, 

 xxxiv, 1917, 400 (coast Alaska Peninsula, breeding; habits), — Horsbough, 



51 Evidently based on a very large female of the bald eagle, though the specimen 

 was stated to be a male bird. The extent of the wings is undoubtedly exaggerated, 

 no eagle having an alar expanse of as much as 10 feet. The date when the speci- 

 men that served as the basis of Audubon's description and colored plate was taken 

 was not given, but it must have been some time during the colder part of the year, 

 when these large northern birds occasionally migrate into the United States. 



