ZOOLOGICAT. DEPARTMENT. 



Genus AQUILA Briss. 

 Aqiiila elirysaetos (Linn.). Golden Eagle. 



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15li ;?+9 (5.32). 



Rare; one in our museum taken in Clinton county, and one from Northern Michi- 

 gan; "taken occasionally in Southern Michigan, a rare straggler from the north " (Dr. M. 

 Gibbs); one taken in Kalamazoo Jan. 1, 1892 (R. F. Judson in O. and O.. Vol. XVII, 

 1892. p. 9); A. H. Boies reports it from the Upper Peninsula and frcmi Hillsdale county; 

 "not uncommon in the Gogebic region "' (H. Nehrling); Jerome Trombley has seen it at 

 the mouth of the Raisin Rivor in Monroe county; "taken in Kalamazoo county" (Dr. 

 M. Gibbs); probably nests in the northern part of the state. 



Genus HALl.EETUS Savig. 



Bald Eagle, reduced. 



154-;552 (5.*{4). Haliii'etus leiiooceplialus (Linn.). *Bald Eagle. 



Not rare, especially in the uninhabited regions of the north; "rave in Monroe Co.. 

 but a pair have their nest on the Raisin River near its mouth " (Jerome Troml)ley ); all 

 months of the year; two in our museum killed in January, one from Ingham and the 

 other from Shiawassee county; found common at Bay City by N. A. Eddy (O. and O., 

 Vol. IX, p. 4); "Grand Traverse county" (Dr. M. L. Leach); "common in the Upper 

 Peninsula" (S. E. White); "quite common in the Gogebic region of the Northern Pen- 

 insula" (H. Nehrling); breeds; "a pair of young taken from nest at Byron in spring of 

 1892" (J. B. Purdy); "breeds in Cheneaux Islands, Mackinaw straits" (Dr. M. Gibbs); 

 "breeds on Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); nests in tall trees, " using the same nest year 

 after year" (C. J. Davis); eggs two, rarely three, nearly spherical, dirty white. The late 

 Prof. W. K. Kedzie secured two of the young here in 1868. which he reared to matur- 

 ity; "I have caught them alive in steel traps mounted on top of poles" (S. E. White). 

 We have only these two eagles in United States. The young differ so widely from 

 the adult that many sujjpose that we have several species. 



Subfamily FALCONIN.E. 

 Genus FALCO Linn. 



Falcons. 



155-354:a-(-4:08). Falco nisticolus gyrfalco (Linn.). Gyrfalcon: Jekfalcon. 



"Said to have been taken in the state in winter" (Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); 



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