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Haliaetus leucocephalus.
1889, Lake Umbagog.
September 12.
Saw almost nothing on the way (to Moll's Rock) except a pair of Bald Eagles, one a superb adult, playing together in the air over Great Island just as a pair of Buteos will often play, one rising above the other and swooping down past it. I saw three other single Eagles and one Osprey.
1897, Lake Umbagog.
June 4. Returning from Bottle Brook Pond.
We saw . . . a pair of Eagles, one brown, the other white-headed. The latter was carrying something in its talons which the other bird appeared to be trying to take from it. They came together a dozen times or more in quick succession, one or both uttering a short shrill scream many times. This note is wholly new to me.