92 Mr. Nuttall’s Remarks and Inquiries 
in Kentucky, near to its junction with the Ohio, he discovered 
its eyry in some rocky cliffs. Its food, like that of the Bald 
Eagle, consists principally of fish. According to the magnificent 
plate of Audubon, it appears to be wholly of an almost uniform 
dark brown. If this be the color of the adult bird, it is unques- 
tionably a new species, and an additional piscatory kind to those 
already known. A specimen from the vicinity of Egg-Harbor 
in new Jersey, is now in Brannau’s Museum, in Market Street, 
Philadelphia ; but in this there are some white spots, indicating 
the incomplete character of the plumage. The Sea Eagle, 
of which the Erne, or White-tailed Eagle, is only the adult, has 
long been included in the catalogue of North American birds, 
but never actually produced as any other animal than the young 
Washington Eagle. Wilson’s Sea Eagle is only the young of 
the Bald Eagle; and it now remains for inquiry, whether the 
marine or piscatory species of America, first well defined by 
Audubon, is, or is not, the Sea Eagle of Europe. According to 
the measurements given by Temminck,* our bird is of more 
than double the cubic volume of the Erne; but the Great Sea 
Eagle of Brisson and Buffon (Planehe Enluminée, vol. II. 
pl. 112.) is of the same size with our bird of Washington, and in 
plumage almost exactly similar to the young of thatspecies. The 
American bird, is, therefore, probably also indigenous to northern 
Europe, but confounded with the ordinary Sea Eagle. As the 
young Washington Eagle is seen more or less, almost every win- 
ter, in the vicinity of Boston, it would settle an interesting point in 
its history, if some individual would have the laudable curiosity to 
keep a live specimen for about two or three years, until we 
* Manuel d’Ornithologie, vol. I. p. 49. (Ed. alt.) 
