BALD EAGLE. 85 
An immature specimen in the same collection is dark 
brown, with white markings on the neck, belly, and 
back. Tail black. 
According to Degland the young differ from those of 
the White-tailed Eagle in the greyish tint of the head 
and neck, and by the entire plumage being less varie- 
gated with dark and pale grey brown during the first 
years. After some moultings the head, neck, and upper 
tail coverts shew the white feathers, and leave no longer 
any doubt of their indentity. 
According to the same authority the beak, cere, base 
of the tarsi, and toes of the adult are of a more or less 
pale yellow. Iris white, inclining to yellow. 
Since the publication of our last number, containing 
the first page of the notice of F. lewcocephalus, I have 
received letters from Mr. Gurney, and Mr. Alfred Newton, 
of Elvedon Hall, near Thetford, expressing most decided 
opinions in favour of Schlegel’s view, that this bird 
ought not to be included in the European list. I am 
anxious to make this work as perfect as possible, and 
in the admission or exclusion of any bird, I think it my 
duty to weigh the evidence, and decide according to that 
which appears in my judgment the strongest. Degland, 
who writes five years after the publication of Schlegel’s 
“Revue,” speaks in the most positive manner upon the 
subject, and in favour of the retention of this bird in 
the European list. 
I particularly draw attention to his observation, page 
13, “Ornithologie Européenne,” and the quotation of 
M. Nordmann’s two Eagles, killed in the south of 
Russia, with heads and necks, as well as tails, as white 
as snow. Has any ornithologist ever known such a 
plumage in F. albicilla? I may add that F. leucocepha- 
Jus is introduced into the European list by Temminck, 
Gould, Degland, C. Bonaparte, Swagers, Keyserling and 
