826 SOUTH AMKUICAN J!1I!I)S. 



uliout the same .size of tliosc of "hi (loldon Katilc, Imt with very littlo or no 

 rud cnliir on tliu white j,'ruuii(i. '\'\\v \inn\<^ luc at livsl covered with ii .soiled 

 white down, and even al this ai,'e tiie heaks anil elaws of the eaj^lets are of 

 very liirgo size. A pair of (loldi'n Ka;j;le.s have lieen known to icar their 

 younjf in the .same .sjiot for eij;ht seasons in succession ; and Mr. Mndie 'las 

 menti(»ned that, hein^ thus altaehed to a luirtienlar locality, their y<ainj,', 

 when ah>^ to provide for themselvi's, are driven away hy the parent hirds to 

 gut their living elsewhen!; l)ut the more erratic White-tailed Kagles, (iiiilting 

 the breeding station when the .season is ended, leave their young to foiage 

 over the district in which they have lieen lai.sed. In coniinemcnt, the 



White-tailed Eagle sometimes becomes sociable One kept by Mr. Hoy 



laid three eggs in the same season; and a female in the possession of Mr. 



.Selby laid an egg after liaving been kejit in coniinemcnt twenty years 



The White-tailed Kagle breeds in *.lie llcl)ri(le.s, in Orkney and Shetland. 

 Mr. Dunn, in his useful CI uide t'. these latter islamls, names the jiarticidar 

 localities in which they may lie found, but states that they arc much more 

 numerous in winter than in summer. This accords with the opinion of Mr. 

 Temininck and others that this sjieeies returns to the .southward from high 

 northern latitudes as the sea.son advances. . . . This Eagle frciiuents Den- 

 mark, Sweilen, the west coast of Norway, and from thence as far north as 

 Iceland and Greenland, but is not found in Xorth America. Air. Temniinck 

 believes that this Eagle follows the tlocks of geese that annually resort to 

 the Arctic regions in snnnner to rear their young. It is found in Siberia, at 

 Lake JJaikal, and inhabit^^ Hussia, from whence to the southward it is spread 

 over the European continent generally." 



Haliaetus leucocephalus (Linn.). 



BALD EAGLE; AMEBICAN EAGLE. 



Aqttihi hucoccphiihi, Hniss. Oni. I, 4-J2, 17<!i>. — Vir.it.l,. Ois. Am. .Sept. pi. iii, 1807. 



— Pallas, Zoo;;, lioss. As. I, 347, IMl. SwAiN.sdN, flassif. 1!. 11, 207, 1S37 ; 

 Aiiiiii. Mciiaj,'. 106, 1838. — .S. LdXiicn. I'liun. IVIj,'. Wi, 18-12. F<iko !ciicocq>li(i/iis, 

 I, INN. Sy.st. Nat. 124, 17G(). -Omkl. Sv.st. Nat. 2.'.'), 1789. — I,ath. liid. Oin. 11, 

 1700; Syii. I, 2!>, 17S1 ; Siipp. p. 0, l>s(>2 ; (icn. Hist. I, 43, l.sjl. - Pr.xx. Airt. 

 ZoiH. jip. 104 and lOt!, 17.S.''.. — Wo.s. Am. Oni. ])\. xxxvi, 1808. - Tk.mm. Man. Orii. 

 pt. i, 52; pt. ii, 27, 1820; Tab. Mulli. 3, 183(1. -Shaw, Zdiil. Vll, 78, 1809. 



— BoNAi'. Ann. I.yc N. Y. II, 26. — (!l!i;i-.x, .Sillinian's Am. .louin. IV, 89; Isis, 

 1832, ]!. ll.'iO. — Am. Oin. liinj;. I, 160, 1831 ; Ilirds Am, pi. xxxi, 1831. — nni.wui!, 

 (WiLs.) Am. Oni. .Symip. 083, 18,'.2. Ifuli'irhi^ Icucofqihihix, Savki. — I'rv. Hej,'. 

 An. (inl. 2), I, 326. — Li:ss. Tr. Oni. p. 40, 18:31. — Sir.Pii. Zoid. -XllI, pt. 2, p. 13, 

 1826. — Jam r.s. (Wils.) Am. Oni. 1, 21, 33, 1808. — .Tai!I>. (Wils.) Oni. II, 89, 307. 



— Kicll. F. V>. A. II, 1."), 1831. — Hkxnktt, Oavd. Zoid. Soc. II, 37, 1831. — Bonai'. 

 Enr. & X. Am. 15. 3, 1838; Cat. Ucp. Eiir. 19, 1842; Consp. Av. l."-., 18.')0 ; IJrv. 

 ct Mag. Ziud. 1854, p. 531. — Max. Cali. .Tonrn. VI, 1858, 3.— Hlakiston, Ilii-s, 

 III, 1861, 320. — Dkkssf.I!, Iliis, 1865, 328 (Texas, liivcdinu'). — fioCLl), H. Eiiv. pi. 

 xi, 1837. — OiiAV, Gen. B. fol. .sji. 3, 1844 ; I.i.st Birds Brit. Mus. 2, 1844. — Am. 

 Syuop.sis Birds Am. 10, 1839. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. k Canad. 72, 1833. — 



