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young bird, tail rounded, longer than the closed wings, 

 and from the root white, two -thirds of its length ; or in 

 the old bird, scarcely longer than the wings, and grey 

 marbled from the root two-thirds of its length, and after 

 that blackish brown. 



Is certainly rare in Scandinavia, although it remains 

 here the whole year, for I have known them caught in the 

 winter in wolf-traps, in Wermland. I never took the nest 

 myself, but the eggs are in general two, hardly so large as 

 those of the white-tailed eagle, but always more richly 

 blotched with red-brown. They are very difficult to 

 procure. 



11. A. NJSVIA, Briss. Sma Orn. The Spotted Eagle. D. 



Smaller than the last, tarsus longer and thinner. 

 Length rarely exceeding 2 ft. Head greyish brown ; 

 body colour brown above, with or without white spots ; 

 below rusty grey, with or without longitudinal streaks. 

 Tail never longer than the closed wings, altogether 

 brown (neither white or grey at the root), but the top 

 side is marked with about six, more or less distinct 

 transverse bars. 



Is only an accidental visitant to the North, but specimens 

 have been killed both in Sweden and Denmark, although 

 never in Finland. 



Subgen. Haliaetos, Sav. 



Tarsi only feathered down half their length. The web 

 between the toes scarcely perceptible. 



Sea Eagles. 



12. HALIAETOS ALBTCILLA, Sav. Hafs Orn. The White- 



tailed Eagle. D. F. 



About the same size as the golden eagle; colour 

 dark brown or brown-grey ; tail in the old bird white 

 throughout its whole length, and not longer than the 

 wings. In the young bird speckled with grey, and 

 longer than the wings. 



The older the bird becomes, the paler is the brown-grey 

 body-colour, and the lighter the head and neck. 



