. Un manuel de l'ornithologie des États-Unis et du Canada : les oiseaux terrestres . couleur d'Amérique. Couleur de l'avertisseur sonore. Iris toujours marron. Cere et jaune pâle. Longueur environ 3 pieds. La femelle jusqu'à 3 pieds G pouces. Chez les jeunes, de la première ou de la deuxième année, tout le plumage est de brun aferrugineux ou de jaune-rougeâtre clair, avec le sous-couvre-queue blanchâtre ; le côté intérieur des jambes et des femorals blanc pur ; le blanc-arrière pour % de sa longueur, le reste brun. Presque toutes les plumes sont blanches vers leur base. À mesure que les jeunes avancements dans l'âge, le plumage devient plus brun, le blanc de la queue moins

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. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada : the land birds . ame color. Bill horn color. Iris always brown. Cere and feetyellow. Length about 3 feet. The female as much as 3 feet G inches. In the young, of the first or second year, the whole plumage is of aferruginous brown or clear reddish-yellow, with the under tail-covertswhitish ; the inner side of the legs and femorals pure white ; the tailwhite for % of its length, the rest brown. Nearly all the feathers arewhite towards their base. As the young advances in age, the plumagebecomes browner, the white of the tail lessens in extent, and ap-pearances of transverse bars commence. — Very rarely, individualsoccur almost wholly white. HALLETUS. (Savigny.) FISHING EAGLES. The lower half of the tarsus naked, with broad scales.The toes totally separated, the outer one versatile; thenails sharp and unequal. The birds of this genus are spread over Asia, Africa, the north of Europe and of America. They dwell on thebanks of rivers and also near the sea, living on fish, waterbirds and aquatic quadrupeds.. WASHINGTON EAGLE. (HaUatus Washingtonii, Audubon, pi. 11. Bonap. Birds, &c. p. 3 ) Spec. Charact. — Tail and upper parts dark brown, beneath reddishbrown, with darker lines; cere and naked tarsus yellow; billblackish.— Young, more or less spotted with white, particularlybeneath. It is to the indefatigable Audubon, that, we owe thedistinct notice and description of this noble Eagle, which WASHINGTON EAGLE. 71 first drew his attention while voyaging far up the Mis-sissippi, in the month of February, 1814. At length, hehad the satisfaction of discovering its eyry in the highcliffs of Green River in Kentucky, near to its junctionwith the Ohio ; two young were discovered loudly hissingfrom a fissure in the rocks, on the approach of the male, from whom they received a fish. The female now alsocame, and with solicitous alarm for the safety of heryoung, gave a loud scream, dropped the food she hadbrought, a

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