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FALCON. 



182 —WHITE-BELLIED EAGLE. 



Falco leucogaster, Ind. Orn. i. 13. Gm. Lin. i. 157. Daud. ii. 49; 

 White-bellied Eagle, Gen. Syn.'i. 33.* Arct. Zool. Introd. csXvW. 



LENGTH 2ft. 9 in. Bill brownish yellow, large, acquiline ; 

 head, neck, breast, belly, thighs, and vent, white ; back, wings, 

 and tail, dark brown, except the end of the latter, which is white 

 for three inches ; legs yellow, very stout ; claws black. 



One of these was met with by Capt. Cook, among others, about 

 Kaye's Island, oif Cape Suckling in latitude 59-49. In Col. Wood- 

 ford's drawings is one, with the head and neck sti-eaked brown and 

 white, and a large patch of white from the base of the wing coverts; 

 bill pale lead-colour ; probably a female or young bird. 



A. — Bill dusky, sti'ong, large, and much curved ; cere and 

 irides yellow ; head and neck yellow ; the whole body above dark 

 bro^vn, each feather tipped with dirty yellow ; beneath the body 

 whitish ; tail tipped with yellow ; leg and toes scaly, naked, yellow. 



This appears about Hudson's Bay in April, and returns south- 

 ward in October ; builds in trees, making a large nest of sticks and 

 grass, and rarely lays more than one e^^ ; preys on deer, rabbits, or 

 any kind of fowl ; is called Ethenesue Mickesue — communicated by 

 Mr. Hutchins, and is probably a variety of the White-bellied 

 species. 



In Mr. Dent's collection of drawings is one, with the head and 

 neck thickly streaked with dark brown, on a pale yellow ground ; 

 back, wings, and tail, dark brown ; base of the quills white, fonning 

 a patch ; end of the tail, for some way, white ; under parts of the 

 body, from the breast, plain white ; this seems to be a young bird. 



