BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 541 



Pandion haliaetos Burmeister, Syst. tlbers. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 57.— Martens, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1859, 212 (Bermuda). 



Pandion haliatus Boies, Cat. Birds Southern Michigan, 1875, 139 (s. Michigan: 

 res.). 



Pandion haliaeetus Taverner, Birds Canada, 1934, 140 (Canada; genl.; col. 

 fig). —Clarke, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 96, 1940, 47 (Thelon Game Sanc- 

 tuary, nw. Canada). 



Aquila piscatrix Vieillot, Ois. Am^r. Sept., i, 1807, 29, pi. 4. 



Pandion fasciatus Brehm. Allg. Deutsch. Zeitschr., ii, 1856, 66 (Santo Domingo), 



PANDION HALIAETUS RIDGWAYI Maynard 



Bahama Osprey 



Adult (sexes alike) .—Similar to the adult male of Pandion haliaetus 

 carolinensis, but smaller, paler, and wdth the head almost entirely 

 white, only a few, if any, narrow dusky streaks on the crown and 

 without the dark postocuiar band ; lesser upper wing coverts conspic- 

 uously margined with grayish tawny-buff; head, neck, and entire 

 underparts white, the last wholly immaculate, the first with a few 

 narrow dusky streaks on forehead and the upper m.argin of auricular 

 region streaked with brown; general color of upperparts deep hair 

 brown to clove brown or fuscous (lighter than in P. haliaetus caro- 

 linensis), the feathers all margined with paler, these pale margins 

 very narrow on back, scapulars, etc., much broader and buffy whitish 

 on lesser wing coverts, which have conspicuous dusky shaft streaks; 

 upper tail coverts mth mner webs pale broccoli brown or Isabella 

 color, except at base, the outer webs white with one or more broad 

 bars of pale brown; middle rectrices and outer webs of others light 

 grayish brown with indistinct broad bars of slightly darker hue, the 

 outermost rectrix white with two or three broad subterminal bars of 

 pale brown; inner webs of all the rectrices white with pale brown bars 

 on terminal portion and indications of other bars along shaft, the 

 shafts also white; inner webs of primaries with expanded portion 

 immaculate white; axillars and under wing coverts immaculate wliite, 

 only those coverts along the edge of the wing having brown markings. 



Juvenal (sexes alike). — Similar to the adult, but paler above, hau: 

 brown to grayish sepia; with much more buffy white on the upper 

 wing coverts, the inner lesser ones along the bend of the wing almost 

 pure buffy white, the rest of the upper wing coverts hair brown to 

 pale fuscous broadly edged with buffy white; the feathers of the back 

 and wings edged mth ta'v\Tiy buffy white. 



Natal down. — Unknown. 



Adult male.— Wing 433^91.5 (465.2); tail 200-221 (208.1); culmen 

 from cere 32.5-34 (33.5); tarsus 65-69 (68.1); middle toe without 

 claw 45-50 (46.3 mm.)^^ 



59 Six specimens from Bahamas (Booby Cay, Inagua, Aucklin, Caicos, and 

 West Caicos Islands). 



