Order FALCONIFORMES 
No. 301. 
Family AQUILII)M 
HALIASTUR INDUS. 
WHITE HEADED SEA-EAGLE. 
(RED-BACKED SEA-EAGLE.) 
(Plate 244.)* 
Falco INDUS Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enlum., p. 25, 1783 ; Pondichery, India. 
Haliaeetus leucostemus Grould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. ni., pi. (40), 1838 ; New South 
Wales = Moreton Bay, Queensland. 
Falco porvticerianus Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscell., Vol. X., pi. 389, 1799 (partim). 
Pondicherry E(agle), Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 32, 1801 (part). 
White-headed Rufous Eagle, Latham, Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol, I., p. 218, 1821. 
Haliaetus girrenera Vieillot and Oudart, Gal. d’Ois, Vol. I., pt. n., pi. x., p. 31, 1821 (part 
only if at aU). 
Haliaeetus leucostemus Grould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. rn., pi. (40), 1838 (Apl.) ; id., 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 138, 1838 (Dec.) ; Witmer Stone, Austral Av. 
Rec., Vol. L, p. 145, 1913. 
Haliastur leucostemus Selby, Cat. Gen. Subgen., Types Aves, p. 2 (note), 1840 ; Gould, 
Birds Austr., Vol. I., pi. *4, 1848 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 17, 1865 ; 
Ramsay, Ibis 1865, p. 83 (Q.) ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1867, p. 393 ; 
Diggles, Om. Austr., pt. 17, pi. 3, 1868 (Q.) ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. I., p. 45, 1876; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1875, p. 578; Mathews, 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIIL, p. 10, 1911 (Q.) ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 151, 
1914 (Q.) ; Barnard, ih., Vol. XIV., p. 41 (N.T.). 
Haliastur leucosternum Blyth, Ibis 1865, p. 28. 
Haliastur girrenera Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. I., p. 315, 1874 (Q.) ; Ramsay, 
Cat. Austr. Accip., p. 33, 1876 ; Broadbent, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, Vol. V., 
p. 14, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. Cat., no. 4, p. 34, 1898 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., 
p. 1, 1899 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 33, 1903 (N.W.A.) ; Banfield, ih., Vol. VI., p. 16, 
1906 (Q.) ; Ashby, ih., p. 73 (N.T.) ; HaU, ih., Vol. VIL, p. 26, 1907 (N.W.A.) ; 
Cornwall, ih., 172, 1908 (Q.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 41, 1908 ; Whitlock, 
Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 177, 1909 (W.A.) ; HiU, ih., Vol. X., p. 266, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., no. 1, Vol. III., p. 223, 1911. 
Haliastur indus subsp. girrenera Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 177, 1878 ; 
Gurney, Ibis 1878, p. 460 ; id., List Diurn. Birds Prey, p. 79, 1884 ; North, Austr. 
* The Plate is lettered Haliastur leiicostermis. 
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