LAND BIRDS. 



295 



thickly streaked lengthwise with rusty on a whitish ground; bill black at tip, bluish gray 

 at base; cere and feet yellow; iris brown. Young resemble adults of the same sex. 



Male: Length 8.75 to 10.60 inches; wing 6.55 to 8.05; tail 4.20 to 5.45. Female: 

 Length 9.50 to 12; wing 6.90 to 8.15; tail 4g-0 to 5.60 inches. 



Family 39. PANDIONID^^]. Ospreys or Fish Hawks. 



148. Osprey. Pandion haliaetus carolinensis {Gviel.). (364) 



Synonyms: American Osprey, Fish Hawk, Fishing Eagle. — Falco carolinensis, Gmel., 

 1788. — Pandion carolinensis of authors generally. — Pandion americanus, Vieill. — Pandion 

 haliaetus, Rich. — -Accipiter piscatorius, Catesby, 1754. 







FiK. TO. Osprey; Fisli TIawk. 



Key to North American Hinls, 



Dana Estes & f'o. 



Figure 76. 



Intermediate in size between the larger hawks and the eagles, but readily 

 distinguished from both by the character of the feet. Instead of three toes 

 in front and one behind, as in all other hawks and eagles, this bird has the 

 outer toe reversible — turning front or back — as in the owls, and moreover 

 all the claws are of equal size, and long, slender, awl-like and much curved, 

 while the soles of the feet and under sides of the toes are thickly studded 



