142 FALCONIDJE. 



Aquila fasca. SPOTTED EAGLE. 



Aquila fusca Brehm, Lehrb. Naturg. eur. Vog. i. 1823, 

 p. 16 : Germany. 



Aquila maculata ( Gmel.) ; Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 325. 

 Aquila clanga Pall. Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. 1874, p. 240 ; 

 B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 96. 



Jfoculaia= spotted. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor : eight, 

 or nine examples have been recorded in England, mostly 

 from the southern counties, and two in Ireland from co. Cork 

 in Jan. 1845. 



General Distribution. The Spotted Eagle breeds from the 

 shores of the Baltic eastwards through Russia, the Caucasus, 

 southern Siberia and central Asia to north China, and south- 

 wards in the Balkan Peninsula, Asia Minor, Palestine, and 

 north India. In winter it leaves its more northern haunts and 

 occurs in Spain, Italy, Algeria, and Tunisia, while numbers 

 ascend the Nile Valley to Abyssinia ; it also winters in the 

 Indian Peninsula and Burma. To western Europe it is a 

 rare visitor. Two forms of Spotted Eagle occur in Europe, 

 but according to Saunders it is the larger chiefly, i not 

 entirely, which has visited the British Islands. 



Genus HALIAETUS Savigny, Descript. de 1'Egypte, 

 i. pt. i. 1809, pp. 68, 85. 



Type : H. albicilla Linn. 



Haliaetu8=a\iaeTos, a Sea-Eagle, in classical Greek poets : from a\s and 

 fiero*. 



HaliaetllS albicilla. WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. 



FalCO albicilla Linncens, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 89 : 

 Sweden. 



Haliaetus albicilla (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. 1874, 

 p. 302 ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 97 ; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 329. 



