HALLEETUS LEUCOGASTER. 

 Fig. 1. 



Hal. capite, collo, corpore subtiis, cauddque per tertiam partem apicalem albis ; corporis partibus reli- 

 quis fusco-cinereis ; rostro fusco ; pedibus Jlavescentibus. 



Long. tot. 32 unc; rostri, 2 J ; alee, 22 ; caudce, lOj; tarsi, 4. 



Head, neck, all the under surface, and the terminal third of the tail-feathers white ; remainder of 

 the plumage brownish grey ; bill dark brown ; feet yellowish white. 



Syn. Falco leucogaster, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 13. — Gmel. Linn., vol. i. p. 157. — Temm. PL Col.,|49. 

 White-bellied Eagle, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. i. p. 33. — Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. i. p. 242. 



Habitat. Australia : locality, New South Wales. 



HALIiEETUS SPHENURUS, Gould. 

 Fig- 2. 



Hal. capite, nucha, guttureque pallide cervinis ; corpore supra alisque intense fuscis, singulis plumis 

 ad apicem pallide cervinis ; caudd cuneiformi, ad basin albescenti-cervind, apicem versus fused, ad 

 apicem alba; pectore fusco, plumis cervino marginatis; abdomine, cervino fuscoque picto, crisso, 

 cauddque subtiis albis ; rostro fusco ; tarsis Jlavis. 



Long. tot. 32 unc. ; rostri, 2 ; alee, 25 ; caudee, 141 ; tarsi, 3 J. 



Head, back of the neck, and throat light buff; all the upper surface and wings deep chocolate 

 brown, each feather tipped with buffy white ; tail cuneiform, light buffy white at the base, passing into 

 deep brown towards the tip, which is white; chest brown, each feather margined with buff; feathers 

 of the abdomen mingled buff and brown, the latter colour occupying the margins of the feathers ; under 

 tail-coverts, and the under side of the tail-feathers white ; bill brown ; tarsi yellow. 



Syn. Halieeetus sphenurus, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc, Part V., 1837. 



Remark. The above description was taken from two specimens in the United Service Museum, 

 which are doubtless male and female, but which are not quite mature. 



This fine species would appear to represent the European Halieeetus cdbicilla in Australia. In size 

 it nearly equals the Aquila fucosa, and like that bird it has a wedge-shaped tail, a character common 

 to many of the liaptorial birds of Australia. 



Habitat. Van Diemen's Land. 



