WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. 



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five or six inches longer : tlie beak and cere are yellow, the 

 irides straw yelloAv ; 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 ; the claws black. 



In young birds of this species the beak is horn colour, the 

 cere yellowish brown, the irides brown ; the plumage more 

 uniform in colour, and darker ; the tail-feathers dark brown. 

 In this state it is the Sea Eagle of many authors. 



The vignette below has been already referred to, page 14. 



The representation of the White-tailed Eagle here given 

 was taken from a specimen in the Garden of the Zoological 

 Society, where it has lived seven years. Among the Eagles 

 in the menagerie of the Society is one very handsome variety 

 of this species, which has also lived there several years. It 

 may be truly called a Cinereous Eagle, — the whole of the 

 plumage is of one uniform bluish grey colour. This speci- 

 men has been very characteristically drawn and coloured in 

 Mr. H. L. Meyer's Illustrations of British Birds, part ix. 



