SEA EAGLE. ^1 1 



projecting over the eye, and giving a peculiar sternness to the 

 aspect of the bird ; the crown is flat ; the plumage of the 

 head, throat, and neck, long and pointed ; that on the upper 

 part of the head and neck, very pale ferruginous ; fore part 

 of the crown, black ; all the pointed feathers are shafted with 

 black ; whole upper parts, dark blackish brown ; wings, black ; 

 tail, rounded, long, of a white or pale cream colour, minutely 

 sprinkled with specks of ash and dusky, and ending in a broad 

 band of deep dark brown, of nearly one- third its length ; chin, 

 cheeks, and throat, black; whole lower parts, a deep dark brown, 

 except the vent and inside of the thighs, which are white, 

 stained with brown ; legs, thickly covered to the feet with 

 brownish white down or feathers ; claws, black, very large, 

 sharp, and formidable, the hind one full two inches long. 



The ring- tail eagle is found in Russia, Switzerland, Germany, 

 France, Scotland, and the northern parts of America. As 

 Marco Polo, in his description of the customs of the Tartars, 

 seems to allude to this species, it may be said to inhabit the 

 whole circuit of the arctic regions of the globe. The golden 

 eagle, on the contrary, is said to be found only in the more 

 warm and temperate countries of the ancient continent.* 

 Later discoveries, however, have ascertained it to be also an 

 inhabitant of the United States. 



SEA EAGLE. {Falco ossif vagus.) 



PLATE LV.— Fig. 2, 



Arct. Zool. p. 194, No. 86.— Linn. Sijst. 124.— Lath. i. 30.— L'Orfraie, Buff. i. 

 112, pi. 3, PI. ml. 12, 415.— .Br. Zool. i. No. 44.— Bewick, i. 53.— Turt. Syst. 

 p. 144. — PeaWs Museum, No. 80. 



HALLjEETUS LEUCOGEPHALUS.—SAViGSY.t 



Bald Eagle, Falco leucocephalus, young, OraVs reprint. 



This eagle inhabits the same countries, frequents the same 



situations, and lives on the same kind of food, as the bald 



eagle, with whom it is often seen in company. It resembles 



* Buffon, vol. i. p. 56, Trans. 



f See note to the adult, in this Volume, p. 89, for synoymns, &c. 



