304 FALCONID^S. 



dark brown ; cere yellowish brown ; bill black ; feet yellow ; iris 

 brown. 



Adult female. Above brown, more or less tinged with sandy on 

 the neck and wing-coverts, many of the feathers margined with 

 pale brown or ashy grey, with an occasional whity brown feather 

 interspersed; head and sides of face decidedly shaded with ashy 

 grey, the ear-coverts browner ; median and greater wing-coverts 

 glossy brown, with whity-brown margins ; quiUs black, with brown 

 shafts, the primaries externally shaded with ashy, the secondaries 

 glossy brown like the back, shading into darker brown towards 

 their tips ; lower back and rump dark brown ; the long upper tail- 

 coverts white, slightly varied at the base and at the tip with brown ; 

 tail pure white ; under surface of body brown, the throat and chest 

 whity brown, with dark brown central streaks, some of the feathers 

 shaded with ashy; under wing-coverts and inner lining of wing 

 dark brown, the latter inclining to ashy ; cere and biU yeUow ; feet 

 yellow, claws black ; iris straw -yellow. Total length 38 inches, 

 culmen 3-8, wing 26-3, tail 13-5, tarsus 4-6. 



Adult male. Smaller than the female. Total length 33-5 inches, 

 wing 24-5, tail 11, tarsus 4-1. 



Hab. Greenland, Iceland, Faero Islands, the whole of Europe and 

 Northern Asia, occurring in Kamtschatka, the Aleutian Islands, and 

 Japan, and extending into China as far as Amoy. It is also found 

 in Scinde and N.W. India. 



a. Pull. st. Orkneys. Mr. Bullock. 



b. Ad. St. Shropshire. Mr. BuUock. 



c. Juv. sk. Shropshire. Mr. BuUock. 



d. Ad. at. Kent. Colonel Montagu [P.] 



e. Vix ad. st. Greenland. Dr. Wm. Dnrrant [P.]. 

 /. Ad. st. Greenland. 



ff, h, i. Juv. st. Greenland. Governor Holboll [C.]. 



k, I. Skeleton. Zoological Society. 



m,n,o. Sterna. Purchased. 



2. Haliaetus leucocephalus. 



The Bald Eagle, Catesh. N. H. Carol, i. pi. 1 (1731). 



L'Aigle a teste blanche, Briss. Orn. i. p. 422 (1760) ; Bttf. PI. Mil. 



i. pi. 411. 

 Falco leucocephala, Linn. S. AT. i. p. 124 (1766) ; Wils. Am. Orn. iv. 



p. 89, pi. 36 (1811) ; Werner, Atlas, Rapaces, pi. 26 (1827); Aud. 



B. Am. pi. 31, id. Orn. Biogr. i. p. 160 (1831) ; Schl. u. Siisem. 



Vog. Eur. Taf. 27 (1839) ; Naum. Vog. DeutscM. xiii. Taf. 344, 345 



(1860). 

 Falco pygargus, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 62 (1800). 

 AquUa leucocephala, Vieill. Ois. d'Am. Sept. pi. Ill (1807). 

 Hahaetus leucocephalus, Saviqn. Descr. d'Egypte, Ois. p. 257 (1809) ; 



Siv. ^ Rich. F. Bor.-Am. Birds, p. 15 (1831) ; Gmdd, B. Eur. i. 



pi. 11 (1837) ; Aicd. B. N. Am. i. p. 59, pi. 14 (1839) ; Grag, Gen. 



B. i. p. 17 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 15 (1850) ; Cass. B. Calif. 



p. Ill (1855) ; Strickl. Orn. Sgn. p. 50 (1855) ; Cass, in Baird's B. 



N. Am. p. 43 (1860) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Aquilse, p. 12 (1862) ; 



Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 186.3, p. 588 ; Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. 



