NORTH AMERICAN EAGLES. 



This species breeds throughout its range wherever suitable places 

 exist, and it has been known to lay and hatch eggs in confinement. 

 In the southern part of the United States, from Florida to Texas, it 

 breeds very earty, depositing its eggs usually during the first half of 

 December, exceptionally about the 1st of November, occasionally in 



Fig. 1.— Breeding range of the bald eagle (Haliseetus leucocephalus) . 



January or February; in the Middle States and in California it lays 

 in February or March, and to the northward correspondingly later — 

 about the middle of April in southern Alaska, sometimes in Ma} r , or 

 even June, in the Arctic regions. 



