Identifier: CompanionGoulds00Digg (find matches)
Title: Companion to Gould's Handbook; or, Synopsis of the birds of Australia. Containing nearly one-third of the whole, or about 220 examples, for the most part from the original drawings
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Diggles, Silvester Gould, John, 1804-1881. Handbook to the birds of Australia
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Brisbane, Thorne & Greenwell
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ICHTHY/ATUS LEUCOGASTER^h/fe-be/MSea E<3^/e ICHTHYIAETUS LEUCOGASTER. (White-hellied Sea Eagle.) Male—Head, neck, and all the under surface, wliite; the tail feathers, for about a-third of their length, terminated by the same color;primaries and base of the tail feathers, blackish brown ; the rest of the plumage, grej ; bill, bluish horn color, tipped with black ; cere andlores, bluish lead color ; irides, dark brown ; feet, whitish, inclining to yellow; claws, black. The female is similar to the male, but much larger in size. The young have the head, throat, and back of the neck, buff; backand wings, brown, each feather tipped with whitish buff; abdomen, buff, each feather margined with brown ; bill, brown.Length of female, 32 inches; wing, 22 ; tail, 10;; bill, 2f; tarsus, 4. This noble species of eagle is found all round the coasts of Australia and Tasmania, where it frequents bays and inlets of thesea, often ascending the streams running into the same. In such situations its

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