WHITE-TAILED EAGLE 
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the Buzzard's, between dull white, very slightly 
stained and spotted with lilac-grey and reddish- 
brown, and the same ground colour very strongly 
and handsomely blotched and stained with the same 
red-brown and lilac hues. After the young are 
hatched there is often enough " fur and feathers " 
lying about the nest to stock half a poulterer's 
stall. 
WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. 
(^Haliaetus albicilla,') 
Sea Eagle, Erne. — This Eagle now only breeds 
in a few of the Scotch islands, and in one or two 
places on the west coast of Ireland. Young birds 
of the year are occasionally seen on the eastern side 
of England, during migration from northern 
Europe in the autumn. It feeds upon various 
kinds of birds, small live animals, and larger dead 
ones, and will also catch fish in the manner of the 
Osprey. The old birds are brown above and 
below, with a whitish head, and a white tail ; but 
the immature plumage does not disappear until the 
fifth or sixth year, and in this stage the bird has 
no white markings. The lower part of the legs 
is not feathered, as in the Golden Eagle. The 
large nest of sticks is built on a cliff or rock, or 
