ACCIPITRES. 
FALCONIM. 
AQUILINE. 
Genus HALIAETUS. 
Bill very stout and long, the cere and base of culmen straight, tip suddenly hooked ; festoon 
well developed. Nostrils round and directed straight backwards and quite exposed. Eyelid devoid 
of lashes. Wings long, the 3rd quill the longest, the 1st slightly exceeding the 7th ; the outer 
webs of the longer primaries abruptly notched. Tail short, scarcely exceeding the closed wings, 
cuneate at the tip. Tarsus very stout and longer than the middle toe ; its upper third feathered 
in front, the remainder covered with broad transverse scutse, the hinder part shielded with 
narrower transverse scales. Toes protected by rectangular scales to the base ; outer toe only 
slightly longer than the inner ; claws short, rather small and well curved, trenchant beneath. 
HALIAETTJS LEUCOGASTER. 
(THE WHITE-BELLIED SEA-EAGLE.) 
Falco leucogaster, Gm. S. N. i. p. 257 (1788, ex Lath.); Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 49 (1823). 
Falco blagrus, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 70 (1800). 
Haliaetus blagrus, Cuv. Regne An. i. p. 316 (1817). 
Falco dimidiatus, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 2 77 (1822). 
Haliaetus leucogaster, Vig. Zool. Journ. i. p. 336 (1824) ; Gould, B. Aust. pt. 3, pi. 37. fig. 1 
(1838); Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Aguilee, p. 14, 1862; Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 85 (1862); 
Schlegel, Yog. Nederl. Ind., Yalkv. pp. 9, 50, pi. 4. figs. 1, 2 (1866); Hume, Rough 
Notes, i. p. 259 (1869); Lloldsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 412; Ball, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 
Beng. 1872, p. 276 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 307 (1874). 
Ichthyaetus leucogaster, Gould, B. Austr. i. pi. 3 (1837); Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1844, p. 13. 
Pontoaetus leucogaster. Gray, Gen. Birds, i. p. 18 (1845); Kelaart, Prodromus, Cat. p. 114 
(1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 100. 
Cuncuma leucogaster. Gray, Cat. Accip. 1848, p. 24 ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 15 ; Walden, Trans. 
Zool. Soc. viii. p. 35 (1872); Hume, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 149; id. Nest and Eggs, i. 
p. 48 ; Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 278; Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 461. 
Blagrus leucogaster, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 30 (1849); Swinh. Ibis, 1870, p. 86. 
Polioaetus leucogaster, Gould, Handb. B. of Austr. i. p. 13. 
White-bellied Eagle, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 33 (1781). 
Le Blagre, Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. i. pi. 5 (1797). 
The Grey-backed Sea-Eagle of some writers ; The “ Fish-Eagle ,” “ Fish-Hawk Europeans in 
Australia; The “ Sea-Eagle ,” “Osprey," Europeans in Ceylon. Buck-Eagle, Andamans. 
Koliassa, Hind. ; Samp-mar, Hind, in Orissa ; Ala, Tel. and Tam. (apud Jerdon, l. c.) ; Lang- 
laut, Sumatra. 
Loko-Bajaliya, Sinhalese ; Kadal-ala, Tam. in Ceylon. 
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