162 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Aquila chrysaétos (LiInN©us). Golden Eagle. [349.] 
Falco chrysaétos Linnxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 88. (Sweden.) 
Rance.— Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. In the Old 
World south to North Africa and the Himalaya; in North America 
from northern Alaska, northwestern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, and 
northern Ungava south to middle Lower California, central Mexico, 
western Texas, South Dakota, Manitoba, southern Keewatin, central 
Ontario, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nova Scotia, and in the Alle- 
ghenies to southwestern North Carolina; less common east of the 
Mississipp1. 
GENUS HALIZSETUS Saviaeny. 
Haliewetus Saviany, Descr. de Egypte, I, 1809, 68, 85. Type, by 
monotypy, Haliwetus nisus Saviany = Falco albicilla LINN2&Us. 
[Haliéetus albicilla (LINNmUs). Gray Sea Eagle. ([351.] 
Falco albicilla Linnmvus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 89. (Sweden.) 
RanGE.— Northern part of Eastern Hemisphere, breeding from 
Scotland, northern Europe, and northern Asia to Spitzbergen and 
Nova Zembla; in migration south to Japan, China, northern India, 
southern Europe, and northern Africa; resident in Iceland and Green- 
land; recorded also from Cumberland Sound; casual on the Aleutian 
Islands. ] 
Halizetus leucocéphalus (LINN Us). 
Rance.— North America, from near tree limit south to northern 
Mexico. 
a. Haligetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (Linnmus). Bald Eagle. [352.] 
Falco leucocephalus Linnvs, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 124. (Carolina.) 
RanGE.— United States to southern Lower California and northern Mexico, 
breeding in suitable locations throughout its range; rare and local in California 
and in the arid interior. 
