. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. Gray or White-tailed Sea Eagle. coverts not white, as in Bald Eagle, but dusky grayish-brown with paler feather edges like rest of body plumage; tail white; bill and feet yellow. "Young: Prevailing color above light umber-brown, cinnamon- brown or isabella-color, each feather with a median streak and terminal spot of blackish- brown ; breast broadly striped with brown- ish-black on a brownish-white and Isabella- colored ground; rest of lower parts nearly plain dull isabella-brown, each feather with a median streak and te
. Birds of Massachusetts and other New England states. Birds; Birds. Gray or White-tailed Sea Eagle. coverts not white, as in Bald Eagle, but dusky grayish-brown with paler feather edges like rest of body plumage; tail white; bill and feet yellow. "Young: Prevailing color above light umber-brown, cinnamon- brown or isabella-color, each feather with a median streak and terminal spot of blackish- brown ; breast broadly striped with brown- ish-black on a brownish-white and Isabella- colored ground; rest of lower parts nearly plain dull isabella-brown, each feather with a median streak and terminal spot of black- ish, and thighs darker and more uniform" (Robert Ridgway); bill and cere black or blackish; iris dark brown. Downy young: Varying from gray to buffy, with some tufts of whitish down here and there; later a coarser, longer down, lighter in color above than below. folded wing to ; tail to Female: Length to in.; folded Measurements. — Male: Length to in. ; bill, without cere, to ; tarsus to wing to ; tail to ; bill to ; tarsus to 1 Nelson, E. W.: Report upon Natural History Collections made in Alaska, 1887, p. 144. * For vivid story of destruction of a fox see Journal Maine Ornithological Society, Vol. V, 1903, p. 41. 2 Auk, Vol. XXXIX, 1922, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929; Massachusetts. Dept. of Agriculture. [Norwood, Ma. : Printed by Berwick and Smith Company]
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