7. Haliaetus. 



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Young. Brown above all the feathers, margined at the tips 

 with lighter brown, shafts dull brown, the nape and hind neck 

 sometimes tinged with tawny, back and rump of a darker dull 

 brown, the feathers tipped with whitish-brown ; wings dark- 

 brown, feathers margined at the tips with whitish-brown ; 

 shoulders and smaller wing-coverts margined with whitish ; 

 primaries dull brown, blackisli-brown at the tips, white freckled 

 with dark-brown at the base, especially on the inner webs ; 

 secondaries becoming whitish at the base, more extensively on 

 the inner webs, and freckled with brown ; head and neck dull 

 brown, sometimes tinged with tawny, streaked with brownish- 

 white down the centre of each feather, shafts blackish ; throat 

 buff ; under surface rufous-browm, each feather centered with a 

 streak of buff, and tipped with buffy-white ; flanks, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts butf, freckled with brown ; legs brown 

 with a broad shaft stripe of deep buff; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts buif ; base of the primaries and their coverts white, 

 freckled with brown ; under surface of shoulders dull brown, 

 margined with deep buff ; tail beneath white freckled with dark 

 brown and tipped wath white ; above white, freckled with brown 

 and becoming darker brown near the ends, which are margined 

 and tipped with white, base white : upper tail-coverts similarly 

 marked to the tail, but of a lighter brown. 



Habitat. The coastal districts of Australia and Tasmania, and 

 sometimes being found on the continent, a distance of 300 miles 

 inland ; New Guinea, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, and 

 extendincr to Cevlon and India. 



Gayndah, Burnett River, Queensland. Col. 



Port Macquarie, New South \Vales. Col. 



New South Wales. Pres, 



Wide Bay, Queensland. Col. 



Port Macquarie, New South Wales. Col. 



Wide Bay, Queensland. Col. 



Port Macquarie, New South Wales. Col. 



