HAU/ETUS. 51 



Hal. Borneo, Sumatra, and the Phillipine Islands, also Tennaserim. 

 Recorded localities from the latter are Amherst, Mergui, Pakchan and Banka- 

 soon. Hume and Davison {Sir. F. vol. vi. p. 19) state that it seemed to be of a 

 confiding and somewhat indolent disposition, preferring to seat itself on some 

 dry tree or other point of vantage from whence it keeps a look out for lizards 

 and locusts, &c., of which its food seems principally to consist. 



Gen. HaliaettlS, Savigny. 



Hill straight at the base, longish, compressed, curved towards the tip, which 

 is much hooked; margin of upper mandible sinuate; wings long; 4th and 5th 

 quills sub-equal, longest ; tarsus plumed for nearly half its length ; lower half 

 of tarsus scutellate. 



47. HalisetUS albicillUS, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 123; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Ace. p. 302. H. albicilla, Leach. Syst. Cat. Mam. $r., B. M. p. 9 ; Gould. 

 Birds Eur. p. 10 \McGilhvray, Brit. B. iii. p. 221 ; Shelley, Birds of Egypt, 

 p. 204 ; Hume, S. Feathers, i. p. 159; id. Rough Notes, p. 257; S. Feathers, 

 vii. 341 467; Murray, Hdllc. Zool. -c. Sind, p. in. Falco albicilla, Gm. 

 Syst. Nat. i. p. 253. Aquila albicilla, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso. As. i. p. 345. 

 Ilalixtus pelagicus, Hume, Rough Notes,\\. p. 252. Haliaetus brooksi, Hume, 

 Ibis, 1870, p. 438 ; Murray, Vert. Zool- Sind, p. 83, The EUROPEAN WHITE- 

 TAILED SEA EAGLE. 



Male. The legs and feet bright orange yellow. Gape and portion of cere 

 yellow, the upper portion being yellowish brown. Bill blackish horny ; head, 

 nape, cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of the neck hair brown, all the feathers white 

 at their bases, in some for the basal half, in others for fully the basal two-thirds, 

 but very little of the white showing through, the feathers being densely set ; all 

 the feathers of these parts long and linear, those of the occiput especially ; the 

 back of the neck, the whole of the back and rump, scapulars and wing coverts, 

 except the greater primary coverts, as well as the feathers of the breast and 

 abdomen a warm buffy fawn colour, changing to white at their bases, and more 

 or less broadly tipped with hair brown ; the longer scapulars and the upper tail 

 coverts, which latter are very broad and come down to within some four inches 

 of the tip of the tail, a mixture of yellowish and hair brown, mottled and 

 freckled with white and yellowish white ; tail, which is very wedge-shaped, 

 dark brown, mottled all over with dingy yellowish white, which colour pre- 

 dominates on the inner webs ; the quills, winglet, and greater primary coverts 

 chocolate brown ; the second to the 5th primaries conspicuously emarginate on 



