136 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



GENUS HALI-ffiETUS SAVIGNY. 



Haliceetus SAVIGNY, Descr. de 1'Egypte, 1809, 35. Type, Falco 

 albidlla LINN. 



[351.] Haliseetus albiciUa (LINN.). 



Gray Sea Eagle. 



Falco albiciUa LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 89. 



Haliaetus albiciUa LEACH, Syst. Cat. M. B. Br. Mus. 1816, 9. 



[B 4 2, C R 4 52, 533.] 

 GEOG. DIST. Northern Europe and Asia ; Greenland. 



352. Haliaeetus leucocephalus (LINN.). 



Bald Eagle. 



Falco leucocephalus LINN. S. N. ed. 12, 1. 1766, 124. 

 Haliczetus leucocephalus Bo IE, I sis, 1822, 548. 



[B 41, 43, C 362, R 451, C 534.] 



GEOG. DIST. North America at large, south to Mexico, north- 

 west through the Aleutian Islands to Kamchatka. Breeds locally 

 throughout its range. 



SUBFAMILY FALCONIN-S1. FALCONS. 

 GENUS FALCO LINNAEUS. 



Falco LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 88. Type, by elimination, 

 F. subbuteo LINN. 



SUBGENUS HIEROFALCO CUVIER. 



Hierofalco Cuv. R&g. An. I. 1817, 312. Type, Falco candicans 

 -/^. islandus BRTJNN. 



353. Falco islandus BRUNN. 



White Gyrfalcon. 



Falco islandus BRUNN. Orn. Bor. 1764, 2. 



