BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 



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HAUAEETUS ALBICILLA ALBICILLA (Linnaeus) 



Eurasian Sea Eagle 



Adult (sexes alike). — General color of head, body, and wings dark 

 fulvous-brown to sepia; tail white; forehead, crov/n, occiput, and nape 

 sepia with the feathers basaily broadly edged and tipped with pale 

 fulvous and with blackish shafts; the feathers of the occiput, nape, 

 and sides of the neck lanceolate with correspondingly longer pale 



Figure 36. — Haliaeetus kucocephalus. 



fulvous tips; interscapulars, upper back, rump, and upper wing coverts 

 dusky Saccardo's umber with an olive tinge to olive-brown, the feathers 

 broadly edged with pale fulvous to pale buffy brown, causing a def- 

 initely scalloped appearance, especially on the upper wing coverts; 

 all the feathers of the body shghtly lighter basaily; remiges fuscous or 

 dark sepia to fuscous-black, the outer primaries usually slightly 

 darker than the secondaries, but not always so; the shafts yellowish 

 white; outer webs of the inner primaries narrowly margined with pale 



