BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 483 



BEF.LAiN, Auk, vii, 18S9, 291 (s. Greenland, common res.). — Schalow, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1S95, 473 (w, Greenland). — Winge, Gr0nlands Fiigle, 1S98, 

 256. — SiiARPE, Hand-list, i, 1S99, 267, part. — Bertelsen, Fugelene i Umdnaq. 

 Distrikt, 1921, 193.— Helms, Medd. Gr0nland, Iviii, 1926, 259 (habits, etc.; 

 Angmagsalik, Greenland). — Baker, Fauna Brit. India, Birds, ed. 2, v, 1928, 

 110, part (Greenland).— Austin, Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No, 7, 1932, 64 

 (hypothetical ; Ne^vf oundland Labrador) . 



? Halia'ctus alhicillus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, 251 (Nova Scotia 

 and Newfoundland). 



Haliaeetus clhicilla Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 16, No. 144, part (Greenland). — 

 RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 195; Nom. North Amer. Birds, 

 1881, No. 452. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, and 

 ed. 2, 1895, No. 351, part; ed. 3, 1910, 162, part; ed. 4, 1931, 71.— Hagerup, 

 Birds Greenland, 1891, 23, 56. — Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 

 1892, 272, part (Greenland) .—Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, ii, 1914, 1176, 

 part. — Swann, Synopt. List Accip., pt. 3, 1920, 90, part (Greenland). — 

 WiTHERBY, ET AL., Practical Handb. Brit. Birds, ii, pt. 10, 1921, 172, part 

 (Greenland). — Oberholser, Auk, xl, 1923, 680 (nomencl.). — Forbush, 

 Birds Massachusetts and Other New England States, ii, 1927, 148 (descr.; 

 New England). — Hantszch, Can. Field Nat., xlii, 1928, 17 (Cumberland 

 Sound: recorded by Kumlien in 1877 and 1878). — Soper, Nat. Mus. Canada 

 Bull. 53, 1928, 106 (seen at Pangnirtung, s. Baffin Island). — Peters, Check- 

 list Birds of World, i, 1931, 258, part. — Sutton, Mem. Carnegie Mus., xiii, 

 1932, 82.— JouRDAiN, Auk, 1, 1933, 202 (crit. of American records). — 

 Taverner, Canada's Eastern Arctic, 1934, 119, in text (sight rec; nesting 

 at Kingua Fiord, Cumberland Sound). 



Haliaetus alhicillus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, 1874, 302, part (Greenland). 



Haliaeetus albicilla albicilla Stegmann, Faune U. R. S. S., Oiseaux, i. No. 5, 1937, 

 139, 275, part (crit; descr.; dlstr.). 



Aquila Groenlandica Brehm, Ornis, ii, 1826, 18; Isis, xviii, 1826, 194, in text (no- 

 men nudum) ; xix, 1826, 928. 



Haliaetos groenlandicus Brehm, Isis, 1828, 1269 (nomen nudum!); Handb. Naturg. 

 Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 16. 



Haliaetus albicilla a. [Haliaetus] groenlandicus Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 267. 



Haliaeetus albicilla groenlandicus Swann, Synop. Accip., pt. 3, 1922, 141. — 

 Oberholser, Auk, xl, 1923, 680. — Jourdain, in Bent, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 

 167, 1937, 316 (meas.)— Witherby et al., Handb. Brit. Birds, iii, 1939,95, 

 in text (Greenland). 



Haliaetus albicilla groenlandicus Nicholson, Ibis, 1930, 313 (Greenland). — 

 ScHi0LER, Danmarks Fiigle, iii, 1931, 79 (monogr.). 



Aquila ossifraga (not Falco ossifraga Briinnich, 1764) Holb0ll, Naturh. Tidsskr., 

 iv, 1843, 385 (Greenland). 



HALIAEETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS LEUCOCEPHALUS (Linnaeus) 



Southern Bald Eagle 



Adult (sexes alike in coloration). — Entire bead, nape, chin, throat, 

 upper and under tail coverts, and tail white, often vath a pale buffy 

 or creamy tinge; scapulars, interscapulars, back, rump, upper wing 

 coverts, remiges, breast, abdomen, sides, fianlvs, thighs, and under 

 \ving coverts dark brownish, varying from fuscous to chaetura drab 

 and even fuscous-black on the upperparts of the body and the remiges 



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