. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . reen grass. The treeselected by the Spotted Eagle is generally a beech, but thenest is also found in oak- and fir-trees. Eggs.—These are laid early in May, and are generally two innumber. Sometimes only one is found, and on very rare oc-casions a nest has been known to contain three eggs. Theyare very like a small edition of Golden Eagles eggs, and areahke in shape at both ends, but they are, of course, smallerthan the eggs of that bird. In those of both forms of SpottedEagle there seems to me to be an occasional tendency for therufous markings to co
. Hand-book to the birds of Great Britain . reen grass. The treeselected by the Spotted Eagle is generally a beech, but thenest is also found in oak- and fir-trees. Eggs.—These are laid early in May, and are generally two innumber. Sometimes only one is found, and on very rare oc-casions a nest has been known to contain three eggs. Theyare very like a small edition of Golden Eagles eggs, and areahke in shape at both ends, but they are, of course, smallerthan the eggs of that bird. In those of both forms of SpottedEagle there seems to me to be an occasional tendency for therufous markings to congregate at one end of the egg, whichis not seen in those of A. chrysaetus. Axis (in eggs of ), 23-2-65 : diam., i •9-2-1 ; axis (in those of ^. inacn-lata), 2 45-2-65 ; diam., i*9-2*i. THE SEA-EAGLES. GENUS IIALIAETUS. Haliactus, Savigny, Syst. Ois. dEgypte, p. 254 (1809).Type, H. albicilla (L.).The Sea-Eagles have the tarsi bare of feathers, and the extentof the bare part of the tarsus is less than the length of the middle. THE SEA-EAGLES. 163 toe. The nostrils are perpendicular ovals, the tail is slightlyrounded, and the bare tarsus is scaled in front and reticulatedbehind. Members of the genus Haliaetus are found in the northernportions of the New World, but are not known from Centralor South America. In the Old World they are found almosteverywhere, and one species, Haliaetus leucogaster, is an in-habitant of the Malayan Archipelago, Australia, and even ex-tends to some of the Oceanic Islands. I. THE WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. HALIAETUS ALBICILLA. Vultnr albicilla^ Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 123 (1766). Haliaetus albicilla^ Macg. Brit. B. iii. p. 221 (1840); Newt. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 25 (1871); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 303 (1874); Dresser, B. Eur. v. p. 551, pi. 348 (1875); B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 97 (1883); Seebohm, Br. B. i. p. 87 (1883); Saunders, Man. Br. B. p. 319 (1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. parts xiii. xvi. (1890). {Plate XL VI.) Adult Male.
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