326 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



about the same size of those of the Golden Eagle, but with very little or no 

 red color on the white ground. The young are at first covered with a soiled 

 white down, and even at this age the beaks and claws of the eaglets are of 

 very large size. A pair of Golden Eagles have been known to rear their 

 young in the same spot for eight seasons in succession ; and Mr. Mudie has 

 mentioned that, being thus attached to a particular locality, their young, 

 when able to provide for themselves, are driven away by the parent birds to 

 get their living elsewhere; but the more erratic White-tailed Eagles, quitting 

 the breeding station when the season is ended, leave their young to forage 

 over the district in which they have been raised. In confinement, the 



White-tailed Eagle sometimes becomes sociable One kept by Mr. Hoy 



laid three eggs in the same season ; and a female in tlie possession of Mr. 



Selby laid an egg after having been kept in confinement twenty years 



The White-tailed Eagle breeds in the Hebrides, in Orkney and Shetland. 

 Mr. Dunn, in his useful Guide to these latter islands, names the particular 

 localities in which they may be found, but states that they are much more 

 numerous in winter than in summer. This accords with the opinion of Mr. 

 Temminck and others that this species returns to the southward from high 

 northern latitudes as the season advances. . . . This Eagle frequents Den- 

 mark, Sweden, the west coast of Norway, and from thence as far north as 

 Iceland and Greenland, but is not found in North America. Mr. Temminck 

 believes that this Eagle follows the flocks of geese that annually resort to 

 the Arctic regions in summer to rear their young. It is found in Siberia, at 

 Lake Baikal, and inhabits Eussia, from whence to the southward it is spread 

 over the European continent generally." 



Haliaetus leucocephalus (Linn.). 



BALD EAGLE; AMERICAN EAGLE. 



Aquila leucoceplmla, Biuss. Orn. I, 422, 1760. — Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. pi. iii, 1807. 



— Pallas, Zoog. Ross. As. I, 347, 1811. — Swainson, Classif. B. II, 207, 1837 ; 

 Anim. Menag. 106, 1838. — S. Longch. Faun. Belg. 53, 1842. Falco leucocephalus, 

 Linn. Syst. Nat. 124, 1766. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 25.5, 1789. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 11, 

 1790; Syn. 1, 29, 1781; Supp. p. 9, 1802; Gen. Hist. I, 45, 1821.— Penn. Arct. 

 ZooL pp. 194 and 196, 1785. —WiLS. Am. Orn. pi. xxxvi, 1808. — Temm. Man. Orn. 

 pt. i, 52; pt. ii, 27, 1820; Tab. Meth. 3, 1836. — Shaw, Zool. VII, 78, 1809. 



— BoNAP. Ann. Lye. N. Y. II, 26. — Green, Silliman's Am. Journ. IV, 89; Isis, 

 1832, p. 1136. — AuD. Orn. Biog. I, 160, 1831 ; Birds Am. pi. xxxi, 1831. —Brewer, 

 (WiLS.) Am. Orn. Synop. 683, 1852. Halwelus Icucoccjihalus, Savir. — Cuv. Reg. 

 An. (ed. 2), I, 326. t- Less. Tr. Orn. p. 40, 1831. — Steph. Zool. XIII, pt. 2, p. 13, 

 1826. — James. (Wils.) Am. Orn. \, 21, 33, 1808. — Jard. (Wils.) Orn. II, 89, 307. 



— Rich. F. B. A. II, 15, 1831. — Bennett, Gard. Zool. Soc. II, 37, 1831. — Bonap. 

 Eur. & N. Am. B. 3, 1838 ; Cat. Ucc. Eur. 19, 1842 ; Consp. Av. 15, 1850 ; Rev. 

 et Mag. Zool. 1854, p. 531.— Max. Cab. Journ. VI, 1858, 3. — Blakiston, Ibis, 

 III, 1861, 320. — Dre.sser, Ibis, 1865, 328 (Texas, breeding). — Gould, B. Eur. pi. 

 xi, 1837. — Gray, Gen. B. fol. sp. 3, 1844 ; List Birds Brit. Mus. 2, 1844. — AuD. 

 Synopsis Birds Am. 10, 1839. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. & Canad. 72, 1833. — 



