FALCONIDA. e 
sionally killed in deer parks and forests: he also 
says it has been seen to feed on seals. The nest is 
always placed amongst high rocks and cliffs: it is 
composed of a large mass of sticks and apparently 
lined with soft materials. 
In this species the males, as in many of the 
Falconide, are larger than the females: ‘“ The 
beak: and cere, or naked skin at the base of the 
beak, are yellow; irides straw-yellow; the head 
and neck brownish ash, made up by a mixture of 
yellowish white and brown, the shaft of each 
feather the darkest part; body and wings dark 
brown, intermixed with a few feathers of a lighter 
colour; primaries nearly black; tail entirely white 
and slightly rounded in form, the middle feathers 
being the longest; the legs and toes yellow; claws 
black.” ‘the young birds “have the beak dull 
horn-colour, cere yellowish brown; irides brown; 
the plumage more uniform in colour and darker ; 
the tail-feathers dark brown.”* In this state it is 
the Sea Eagle of Bewick and other authors. ‘This 
bird may be distinguished at any age from the 
Golden Eagle by the tarsus, which in that bird is 
feathered to the junction of the toes, and in this 
only half way down. 
The eggs are of a white ground colour, occa- 
sionally tinged with very little red colour. 
* Yarrell, p. 29. 
