P LAP EB ey. 
Haliatus feu Offifraga. Raii. Syn. p- Je.Ner 2. 
Haliztos. Turnert. 
Sea Eagle. Will. Orn. p. §9. ¢. 1. 
Br. Zool. i. p. 167. t. 17. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. 
Bone-breaker, Kolb. Cap. 2. p. 127. 
Le Grand Aigle de Mer. Brif. Orn. 1. p. 437. No. 9. 
LOrtraie, Buff, Oif. 1. p.: 112. £. 3. 
Le Grand Aigle de Mer. Pl. enl. 415. (fem.) 
Gaas Orn. Brunnich. 13. 
Bein-brecher, Offifraga. 
Meeradler, Fifch-arn, Haliztos. Gefn. av. 201. 203. 
‘This fpecies is little inferior in fize to the Golden Eagle. The 
length is three feet fix inches; it is a ftout bird, and is armed with 
formidable talons: it may be diftinguifhed from the Golden Eagle by 
the legs, which are, for half their length, bare of feathers in the Sea 
Eagle: the legs of the Golden Eagle, on the contrary, are feathered 
to the toes. 
It inhabits moft parts of Europe. In thefe kingdoms it is found, 
in Scotland and Ireland ; and fometimes, though rarely, in England. 
Our fpecimen ‘was fhot in the Hebrides. It is obferved of this 
{pecies, that it grows much larger in North America than in Europe. 
In Ruffia and Siberia it is very common. 
This Bird lives chiefly on Fith, which it takes in the fame manner 
as the Ofprey. It is fuppofed that the Eagle mentioned by Kolben, 
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