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to the aspect of the bird; the crown is flat; the plumage 
of the head, throat, and neck, long and pointed ; that on the 
upper part of the head and neck, very pale ferruginous ; fore 
part of the crown, black ; all the pointed feathers are shafted 
with black ; whole upper parts, dark blackish brown ; wings, 
black ; tail, rounded, long, of a white, or pale cream colour, 
minutely sprinkled with specks of ash, and dusky, and ending 
in a broad band of deep dark brown, of nearly one-third its 
length ; chin, cheeks, and throat, black ; whole lower parts, a 
deep dark brown, except the vent and inside of the thighs, 
which are white, stained with brown ; legs, thickly covered to 
the feet with brownish white down, or feathers ; claws, black, 
very large, sharp, and formidable, the hind one full two inches 
long. 
The Ring-tail Eagle is found in Russia, Switzerland, 
Germany, France, Scotland, and the northern parts of America. 
As Marco Polo, in his description of the customs of the 
Tartars, seems to allude to this species, it may be said to 
inhabit the whole circuit of the arctic regions of the globe. 
The Golden Eagle, on the contrary, is said to be found only 
in the more warm and temperate countries of the ancient 
continent.* Later discoveries, however, have ascertained it to 
be also an inhabitant of the United States. 
SEA EAGLE FALCO OSSIFRAGUS Plate LV. Fig. 2. 
Arct. Zool. p. 194, No. 86 Linn. Syst. 124 Lath. i. SO L’Orfraie, Buff. i. 
112, pi. 3. PI. enl. 12, 415 — Br. Zool. i. No. 44. — Bewick , i. 53. — Turt. Syst. 
p. 144 — Peale's Museum , No. 80. 
HALIAEETUS LEU CO CEP HAL US. — Sa vigny. f 
Bald Eagle, Falco leucoceplialus, young, Ord's reprint. 
This Eagle inhabits the same countries, frequents the same 
situations, and lives on the same kind of food, as the Bald 
Eagle, with whom it is often seen in company. It resembles 
this last so much in figure, size, form of the bill, legs, and claws, 
* Buffon, vol. i. p. 56. Trans. 
f See note to the adult, in this Volume, p. 89, for synonyms, &c. 
