HALI^ETUS LEUCOGASTER. 
Fig. 1. 
Hal. capife, coUo, corpore suhtus, cauddque per tertiam partem apicalem albis ; corporis partibus reli- 
quis fusco-cinereis ; rostro fusco ; pedibus Jiavescentibus. 
Long. tot. 32 unc; rostri, 2^; alee, 22 ; caudce, 10^; tarsi, 4. 
Head, neck, all tlie under surface, and the terminal tiiP'd 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. PI. 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. 
IIALl/EETUS SPIIENURUS, Gould. 
Fig. 2. 
Hal. capife, nucha, guttureqiie pallide cervinis ; corpore supra alisqne infeiise fuscis, singidis plnniis 
ad apiceni jiallide. cervinis ; caiidd cuneiformi, ad basin albescenti-cervind, apiccni versus fused, ad 
apicem albd ; pectore fusco, phmds cervino marginatis; abdomine, cervino fuscoque picto, crisso, 
cauddque subtiis albis ; rostro fusco ; (arsis fiavis. 
Long. tot. 32 unc; rostri, 2; alee, 25 ; candce, Ll4; tarsi, 3^. 
Head, back of the neck, and throat light buff ; all the upper surface and wings deep chocolate 
brown, each feather tipped with liuffy white ; t;ul cuneiform, light butfy vi'liite at the base, passing into 
deep brown towards tlie tip, \vhich is white ; chest brown, each featlier marginetl 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. Haliceelus spJienurvs, 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 vvould appear to represent the European Haliceetus alhicilla in Australia. In size 
it nearly equals the Aquila fncosa, and like that bird it has a wedge-shaped tail, a character common 
to many of the Raptorial birds of Australia. 
Habitat, Van Diemen's Land. 
