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Young hirds have the basal half of the tail and the tarsi white. 

 Distinguished at all times from the Bald Eagle by the fact that the feathering 

 on the tarsus extends to the toes. 



Rare and irregular visitant. Tlie following specimens have been 

 captured in tlie State : 



Vineland; February, 19th, 1868. In collection John H. Sage.^ 



Rocky Hill, near Princeton; March, 1881. Collection Wm. C. 

 Osborn.- 



Crosswicks Creek; autumn, 1888. W. E. Daw.^ 



Cape May; October 20th, 1892. J. Milford.* 



New Egypt; 1893. Collection of C. A. Voelker.^ 



Long Branch; August, 1897; caught alive.^ 



Moorestown; November 8th, 1901. Collection Moorestown Nat. 

 Hist. Soc." 



352 Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnseus). 

 Bald Eagle. 



PLATE 32. 



Adults. — Length, male, 30-35; female, 34-43. Wing, male, 20-25; female, 

 24-28. Head, neck and tail, pure white ; remainder of plumage, dark brown ; 

 bill and feet, yellow. 



Young birds. — Entire plumage, dark brown, more or less edged with white ; 

 tail, brown, somewhat mottled with white ; bill, black. 



Nest in tall tree ; eggs, two, dull white, 2.75 x 2.10. 



Resident in the southern part of the State, but much rarer than 

 formerly. Of irregular occurrence elsewhere. 



The Bald Eagle formerly nested regularly about Beesley's Point, 

 where Wilson observed it about 1808. He describes how his friend 

 and companion, George Ord, then a young man, climbed up to one of 

 the nests only to find it empty. 



1 J. H. Sage, Auk, 1895, p. 179. 



^ Babson, Birds of Princeton, p. 48. 



' Dr. W. C. Braislin, Auk, 1896, p. 81. 



'C. A. Voelker, Abst. Proc. D. V. O. C, II., p. 6. 



° Stone, Birds of E. Pa. and N. J., p. 88. 



• F. M. Chapman, Auk, 1898, p. 54. 



' W. B. Evans, Cassinia, 1901, p. 51. 



