434 BIRDS—FALCONID A. 
Genus HALIAETUS. Savigny. 
Tarsus naked, scutellate in front; other generic characters much as in Aquila. 
HLALIAETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS (L.) Savigny. 
White-headed Magle; Bald Magle. 
Falco leucocephalus, WILSON, Am. Orn., iv, 1812, 890.—KiRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 
1838, 16i, 1738.—ReAD, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci., vi, 1853, 395; Fam. Visitor, iii, 
1852, 202. 
Falco washingtonianus, KIRTLAND, Ohio Geolog. Surv., 1838, 161, 178. 
Falco washingtonii, READ, Proc. Phila. Acad., vi, 1853, 395. 
Haliaetus washingtonii, READ, Fam. Visitor, iii, 1852, 244.—KIRKPATRICK, Ohio Farmer, 
vii, 1858, 83; Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1858, 1859, 366.—WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 
1860, 1861, 361; Reprint, 3. 
Haliaétus leucocephalus, KiRKPATRICK, Ohio Farmer, vii, 1858, 75; Ohio Agric. Rep. for 
1858, 1859, 366.—WHEATON, Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1860, 1861, 361; Reprint, 3; Food 
of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 1875, 570; Reprint, 10 —LANGDON, Cat. 
Birds of Cin.,, 1877, 13; Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 1879, 180; Re- 
print, 14; Sammer Birds, ib., ili, 1880, 226; Field Notes, ib., ii, 1880, 126. 
Washington Eagle, KIRTLAND, Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 1, 15. 
Bald Eagle, KIRTLAND, Fam. Visitor, i, 1850, 15, 148.—BaLuovu, Field and Forest, iii, 
1878, 136. 
Falco leucocephalus, LINNZZUS, Syst. Nat., i, 1766, 124. 
Haliaetus leucocephalus, SAVIGNY. 
Falco washingtoniana, AUDUBON, Loudon’s Mag., i, 1828, 115. 
Falco washingtonit, AUDUBON, Orn. Biog, i, 1831, 58. 
Haliaetus washingtonii, BONAPARTE, List, 1838, 3. 
Dark-brown ; head and tail white after the third year; before this, these parts like 
the rest of the plumage. About the size of the last species. Immature birds average 
larger than adults. | 
Habitat, the whole of North America. Greenland. Casual in Europe. 
Common and resident in some localities, irregular winter visitor or 
migrant in others. The American or White-headed Hagle is most abun- 
dant near large bodies of water, and is more common on the Lake Shore 
than in other portions of the State. Wilson gives the following account 
of his observations of them in the State : 
“Tn one of those partial migrations of tree squirrels that sometimes takes place in our 
western forests, many thousands of them were drowned in attempting to cross the Ohio; 
and at a certain place, not far from Wheeling, a prodigious number of their dead bodies 
were floated to the shore by an eddy. Here the Vultures assembled in great force, and 
had regaled themselves for sometime, when a Bald Eagle made his appearance, and took 
sole possession of the premises, keeping the whole Vultures at their proper distance for 
several days. He has also been seen navigating the same river on a floating carrion, 
though scarcely raised above the surface of the water, and tugging at the carcass, re- 
gardless of snags, sawyers, planters, or shallows. He sometimes carries his tyranny to 
great extremes against the Vultures. In hard times, when food happens to be scarce, 
