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Aquila chrysaetos (LINNAEUS). Golden Eagle. [349.] 



Falco chrysaetos LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 88. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. 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 

 Mississippi. 



GENUS HALI.SETUS SAVIGNY. 



Haliceetus SAVIGNY, Descr. de T^gypte, I, 1809, 68, 85. Type, by 

 monotypy, Haliceetus nisus SAVIGNY = Falco albicilla LINN^US. 



[Haliseetus albicilla (LINNAEUS). Gray Sea Eagle. [351.] 



Falco albicilla LINN^US, 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.] 



Haliseetus leucocephalus (LINNAEUS). 



RANGE. North America, from near tree limit south to northern 

 Mexico. 



a. Haliseetus leucocephalus leucocephalus (LINNAEUS). Bald Eagle. [352.} 

 Falco leucocephalus LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, 1, 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. 



