HALIAKTUri. ASTUR. 113 



Albicilla,ivom albicula, diminutive of atbMS=white: probably confused, 

 like Motacilla, with an impossible derivation from a non-existent word, ciWos = 

 a taU. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Scarce Resident in 

 the Shetland Islands and the Outer Hebrides, but has been 

 exterminated as a breeding-species elsewhere in Great 

 Britain and recently in Ireland. It is an irregular visitor 

 in autumn and winter to the maritime counties and is occa- 

 sionally met with inland, most of the birds being immature. 



General Distribution. — The White-tailed Eagle breeds in 

 Greenland, Iceland, Novaya Zemlya, and Europe, from 

 Scandinavia, Denmark, northern Germany and Russia, south- 

 viards to the valley of the Danube, Turkey, Asia Minor, 

 and apparently Egypt about Lake Menzaleh ; also across 

 northern Asia to Kamchatka and north China. In winter 

 it visits the rest of Europe and occurs occasionally in Spain, 

 possibly in the Azores, and in the Canary Islands and nortii 

 Africa ; it also visits India and Japan. 



Genus ASTUR LacepMe, Tableaux Ois. 1799, p. 4. 

 Type : A. palumharius (Linn.). 



Astur, a species of Hawk, in late Latin (4th century) : probably from 

 a<TTfip=a, star, since aaT6pias=ata,iied, spotted, occurs as a kind of Hawk in 

 Aristotle. 



Astur palumbarius. Goshawk. 



ralCO palumbarius Linnma, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 91 : 

 Europe. |i. il. 



Astur palumbarius {Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds S. M. i. 187^', 

 p. 95 ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 97 ; Saunders, Manual, 

 2nd ed. 1899, p. 331. 

 Palwmbdrius=a, kind of Hawk which attacks Doves, pdlmnhes. 



Distrihition in the British Islands. — An Occasional Visitor. 

 Most of the examples recorded have been immature birds 

 met with on the east coast of Great Britain. Elsewhere its 

 occurrence is very rare. Statements as to the capture of 



