ACCIPITRES. 

 FALCONID^. 



AQUILINE. 

 Genus HALIAETUS. 

 Bill very stout and long, the cere and base of culmen straight, tip suddenly hooked ; festoon 

 well developed. Nostrils round and directed straight backwards and quite exposed. Eyelid devoid 

 of lashes. Wings long, the 3rd quill the longest, the 1st slightly exceeding the 7th ; the outer 

 webs of the longer primaries abruptly notched. Tail short, scarcely exceeding the closed wings, 

 cuneate at the tip. Tarsus very stout and longer than the middle toe ; its upper third feathered 

 in front, the remainder covered with broad transverse scutse, the hinder part shielded with 

 narrower transverse scales. Toes protected by rectangular scales to the base ; outer toe only 

 slightly longer than the inner ; claws short, rather small and well curved, trenchant beneath. 



HALIAETUS LEUCOGASTEK. 



(THE WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLE.) 



Falco leucogaster, Gm. S. N. i. p. 257 (1788, ex Lath.) ; Temm. PL Col. i. pi. 49 (1823). 



Falco blagrus, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 70 (1800). 



Haliaetus blagrus, Cuv. Regne An. i. p. 316 (1817). 



Falco dimidiatus, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 277 (1822). 



Haliaetus leucogaster, Vig. Zool. Journ. i. p. 336 (1824); Gould, B. Aust. pt. 3, pi. 37. fig. 1 



(1838); Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Aquiloe, p. 14, 1862; Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 85 (1862); 



Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. Ind., Valkv. pp. 9, 50, pi. 4. figs. 1, 2 (1866); Hume, Rough 



Notes, i. p. 259 (1869); Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 412; Ball, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 



Beng. 1872, p. 276 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 307 (1874). 

 Ichthyaetus leucogaster, Gould, B. Austr. i. pi. 3 (1837); Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1844, p. 13. 

 Pontoaetus leucogaster, Gray, Gen. Birds, i. p. 18 (1845) ; Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 114 



(1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 100. 

 Cuncuma leucogaster, Gray, Cat. Accip. 1848, p. 24 ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 15 ; Walden, Trans. 



Zool. Soc. viii. p. 35 (1872) ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 149 ; id. Nest and Eggs, i. 



p. 48 ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 278; Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 461. 

 Blagrus leucogaster, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 30 (1849); Svvinh. Ibis, 1870, p. 86. 

 Polioaetus leucogaster, Gould, Handb. B. of Austr. i. p. 13. 

 White-bellied Eagle, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 33 (1781). 

 Le Blagre, Levaill. Ois. dAfr. i. pi. 5 (1797). 

 The Grey-bached Sea-Eagle of some writers ; The " Fish-Eagle," " Fish-Hawk," Europeans iu 



Australia; The "Sea-Eagle," "Osprey" Europeans in Ceylon. Buck-Eagle, Andamans. 

 Kohassa, Hind. ; Samp-mar, Hind, in Orissa ; Ala, Tel. and Tarn, (apud Jerdon, I. c.) ; Lang- 



laut, Sumatra. 

 Loko-Rajaliya, Sinhalese ; Kadal-ala, Tarn, in Ceylon. 



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