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scribed it, and as this description is based on a single specimen shot by 
him at the village of Henderson, Kentucky, it is the more remarkable. In 
Ohio there are fisher-eagles that neither agree in specific character with 77. 
leucocephalus nor H. Washingtonii, exceeding in size the former, but want- 
ing the continuation of the tarsal scutella to the base of the toes, which is 
one of the distinguishing marks of the latter species. The Cleveland 
Academy of Natural Sciences has in its possession two specimens of this 
eagle, one mounted, the other a skin; the latter is now lying before us. 
The bird was shot three or four years since within a few miles of Cleve- 
land, and the skin has shrunk a good deal in drying; the measurement of 
the total length cannot therefore be at all reliable. It is now about three 
feet two inches, and probably when recent was three feet four inches; the 
wings, from the flexture to the tips of the longest primaries, two feet one 
and a half inches; bill along the ridge three and a quarter inches; tarsi 
three and a half inches; middle toe and claw four and a half inches; tail 
fifteen inches long. Color, dark brown; tail and portion of the secondary 
feathers of the wing irregularly blotched with white; primaries black, the 
third, fourth and fifth being the longest and of equal length; bill blackish; 
feet yellow. The sex or age unknown. There is considerable shading of 
yellowish throughout the whole plumage, but it is rather irregular. 
As the dimensions of this bird do not agree with those of H. Washing- 
tontt or of LH. leucocephelas, we cannot say to which it really belongs, and 
shall wait until an opportunity offers for the examination of a recent speci- 
men, but we may state that it has been a question in the minds of the best 
ornithologists of Ohio, if this is not really the Washington eagle. 
Audubon states that tais bird frequents the course of the Ohio River 
and its tributaries, and also the chain of the great lakes—the latter on the 
authority of the voyageur who first called his attention to it. He also 
states that this species breeds in the cliffs of rocks, a habit that the bald- 
eacle has not, the latter always building in trees. It is also more indus- 
trious than its white-headed relation, fishing for itself in the manner of the 
fish-hawk, and does not rob this bird of food, like the former species. 
We annex the following description from the above-named author: 
“Adult male—Tarsus and toes uniformly scutellate in their whole 
length; bill bluish-black ; cere yellowish-brown; feet orange-yellow; claws 
bluish-black. Upper part of the head, hind neck, back, scapulars, rump, 
tail coverts, and posterior tibial feathers, blackish-brown, glossed with a 
