24 FALCONIDA. 
Russia, from whence to the southward it is spread over 
the European continent generally, and has been taken in 
Sicily and Corfu. 
The whole length of an adult male Cinereous cr White- 
tailed Eagle is about twenty-eight inches; the females are 
five or six inches longer: the beak and cere are yellow, the 
irides straw yellow; the head and neck brownish ash, 
made up by a mixture of yellowish white and brown, 
the shaft of each feather the darkest part; body and 
wings dark brown, intermixed with a few feathers of a 
lighter colour ; primaries nearly black ; tail entirely white, 
and slightly rounded in form, the middle feathers being 
the longest ; the legs and toes yellow; the claws black. 
In young birds of this species the beak is horn colour, 
the cere yellowish brown, the irides brown; the plumage 
more uniform in colour, and darker; the tail-feathers dark 
brown. In this state it is the Sea Hagle of many authors. 
The vignette below has been already referred to, page 19. 
The representation of the White-tailed Hagle here given 
was taken from a specimen in the Garden of the Zoological 
Society, where it has lived seven years. 
