HALIAETUS 525 



-chiefly unfeathered, light yellow ; iris straw yellow. Culmen 3*6, wing 26'5, 

 tail 12'5, tarsus 4'2 inch. Female larger, and darker on the head and neck. 

 The young bird has the entire plumage blackish brown, varied with fulvous, 

 the tail dark brown ; bill blackish ; cere yellowish brown ; legs and feet 

 dull yellowish ; iris brown. 



Hob. Europe generally, north to south Greenland and 

 Novaya Zemlya ; North Africa ; Asia Minor and Asia east to 

 Japan, north to Kamchatka, south to N.W. India, Sind, and the 

 Punjab ; China, Manchuria, and Corea. 



As its name implies it is chiefly an inhabitant of the sea 

 coast, large lakes, and rivers, but in some parts is often found 

 far inland. Though large and powerful it seldom attacks any 

 animal larger than a grouse, hare, or a lamb, but feeds prin- 

 cipally on fish, carrion, rabbits, and wild fowl. Its cry is a 

 clear shrill yelp, shriller than that of the Golden Eagle. The 

 nest is a huge structure of sticks lined with moss and grass, 

 and is placed on a cliff, a tree, or, when in a marsh, on the 

 ground, and the eggs are laid in April or May in Europe, 

 or earlier in the south-eastern portions, and in December and 

 January in Egypt. These are two in number and uniform 

 unspotted white, rather rough in texture of shell and measure 

 about 2*82 by 2'30. 



740. BALD EAGLE. 

 HALIAETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS. 



Hallaetus leucocf-pTialus (Linn.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 124 (1766) ; Wils. Am. 

 Orn. iv. p. 89, pi. 36 ; Naum. xiii. Taf. 334, 335 ; Gould, B. of E. 

 i. pi. 11 ; Aud. B. N. Am. i. p. 59, pi. 14 ; Ridgway, p. 243 ; Tacz. 

 F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 34 ; Bendire Life Hist. N. Am. B. i. p. 274, pi. ix. 

 fig. 7 (egg); H.]nxisJimgtonii (Aud.) Mag. Nat. Hist. i. p. 115 

 (1829). 



<J ail. (New Brunswick). Differs from H. albicilla in having the head, 

 neck, tail-coverts, and tail pure white, the rest of the plumage blackish 

 brown, many of the feathers with paler margins ; bill, cere, legs, feet, and 

 iris yellow. Culmen 2'20, wing 25'0, tail 13'2, tarsus 3'35 inch. Female 

 similar but larger. The young bird is nearly uniform blackish brown, the 

 feathers on the under parts with white bases, which show through here and 

 there. 



Hal}. N. America, south to Florida and Mexico ; the 

 Commander Islands and Kamchatka. 



In habits it resembles H. albicilla and like, that bird feeds on 

 small mammals, carrion, fish, and birds, and often robs the 



