40 PANDIONIDZ. 
Falco carolinensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 263°. 
Pandion carolinensis, Aud. Birds Am. t. 81°; Orn. Biogr. 1. p. 4137; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 215"; 
Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 2°; Salv. Ibis, 1864, pp. 378°, 3857"; 1865, p. 193"; Grayson, 
Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 268"; Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 39”. 
Pandion haliaetus, var. carolinensis, Ridgw. in Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. Birds, iu. p. 184” ;. 
Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 303"; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 88"; Sumichrast,. 
Nat. v. p. 237". | 
Pandion haliaetus carolinensis, Belding, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 344°; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. vi. p. 377”; Herrera, La Nat. ser. 2, i. p. 820 1. Richmond, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. XV1. 
p. 520”; Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii. p. 8320”; Fisher, Bull. U. S. Dep. Agr. no. 3, 
p- 180, t. 18”. 
Supra fuscus, dorsi plumis stricte albido marginatis, capite toto et cervice flavido-albis, pileo medio, plaga. 
cervicali, loris et stria lata postoculari fuscis: subtus albus, pectoris plumis plus minusve fusco maculatis 
interdum pure albis; alis fuscis, subtus introrsum albo et fusco transfasciatis, margine externo fusco, 
plumis omnibus albo limbatis, axillaribus albis; cauda indistincte fasciata: rostro et pedibus plumbeis. 
Long. tota circa 21-0, ale 19-0, caude 8°5, tarsi 2°2. (Descr. exempl. ex Acapam, Guatemala. Mus. 
nostr.) 
Hab. Norvu AmERica, generally distributed as far north as Hudson’s Bay and Alaska??.— 
Mexico, both Atlantic and Pacific coasts (Swmichrast), Guaymas (Belding?®), Tres 
Marias Islands (Grayson 18, Forrer), Mazatlan (Grayson 16), Colima (Xantus 16), 
Tamaulipas (W. B. Richardson), Coyutla, Rio Rancho Nuevo, Santa Ana, Alvarado 
(Ferrari-Perez), Chalco, Xochimilco (Herrera), Ventosa Bay, Chihuitan (Swm- 
chrast!"), Holbox and Cozumel Island (G. Ff. Gaumer 4); British HonpDuRas, 
Belize (0. 8.8), Half Moon Cay, Saddle Cay", Tobacco Cay}, &c. (0. S.); 
Guatemana, both Atlantic and Pacific coasts (0. S.8 & F. D. G.), Acapam (0. S.™*); 
Honpuras (Dyson, in Mus. Brit.*), Ruatan 1. (G. F. Gaumer*), Amapala (0. S.) ; 
Nicaragua, east coast (Richmond), San Juan del Sur (0. S., Nutieng °°); 
Panama (M*Leannan 2).—Sovutn America, northern parts; OLD Wor Dp, northern 
hemisphere generally. 
The Osprey is a common bird on the coasts of Mexico and Central America, 
frequenting both the coral-lined shore of the Atlantic and the lagoons and estuaries 
which abound on that of the Pacific. Though a migrant in the north it is never 
absent from its haunts in the south, and in the winter season the numbers in southern 
districts are no doubt largely augmented by arrivals from colder climates. 
Gundlach says 14 that birds arrive in Cuba from Florida about the beginning of 
September, but that there was evidence that others bred in the island. 
Grayson, during his visits to the Tres Marias Islands’, discovered two nests in the 
northernmost island, one of which was on a rock adjacent to the shore and had young 
in it; the other was on the top of the large thorny limbs of a giant cactus. On the 
mainland near Mazatlan, he says, the Osprey was quite common. Mr. Forrer procured. 
a nestling on the Tres Marias Islands. 
