_Aquila chrysaetos_
With the Bald Eagle, largest of our raptorial
birds; with a general resemblance to the young of
that species, in which the head and tail are dark,
but with the legs feathered to the toes. L., male,
32-1/2; female, 37-1/2.
_Range._ Northern parts of the northern
Hemisphere; in the United States, rare east of the
Mississippi.
Washington, rare W.V., Ossining, A.V. Cambridge, 1
record. N. Ohio, rare W.V. SE. Minn., P.R.
The Golden Eagle is so rare in the eastern United States and its general
resemblance to a young Bald Eagle is so close, that only an experienced
ornithologist could convince me that he had seen a Golden Eagle east of
the Mississippi.