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broadly edged with pale fulvous white, incompletely barred and 

 mottled with dark sepia; rectrices clove brown to dusty sepia, all 

 but the median pair whitish on the inner webs except for a broad 

 brown tip and all the rectrices crossed by five to seven indistinct 

 bands of slightly darker brown, these bands becoming distinct on 

 the whitish inner webs of the rectrices (except the median pan-); a 

 broad fuscous-black postocular band extends from the hind end of 

 the eye to the sides of the neck, where it connects with the transverse 



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Figure 39. — Pandion haliaetus. 



arms of the similar color from the nape and extends down to the sides 

 of the breast; chin, throat, breast, abdomen, sides, fianlcs, and under 

 tail coverts white, sometimes tinged with pale buff; the feathers of 

 the lower throat and breast occasionally with narrow dusky tawny 

 to fuscous shaft streaks; under wing coverts whitish; cere and base 

 of lower mandible bluish, rest of bill black; iris King's yellow; tarsi 

 and toes livid bluish, claws black. 



