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PANDION HALIAETUS. THE FISHING OSPREY. 



FISHING EAGLE. FISH HAWK. BALD BUZZARD. lOLAIR-UISG. 



Fig. 218. 



Falco Haliaiitus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 129. 



Falco Haliaetus. Lath. Ind. Oin. I. 17. 



Ospiey. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Aigle Balbusard. Falco Halisetus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 47 ; IL 25. 



Osprey. Pandion Haliaetus. Selb. Illustr. I. 24. 



Aqiiila Haliseetus. Osprey. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 81. 



Adult toith the hill hliiish-hlack, the cere light blue, the feet pale 

 greyish-blue ; the plumage abote deep umber-brown, the upper 

 part of the head and neck white, the middle of the crown dark 

 brown ; a broad band of dark broini on the cheeks and neck ; 

 the loicer parts ichite, the neck streaked icith brown. 



Young with the feathers of the tipper parts deep brown, ter- 

 minally margined with reddish-white. 



Male. — The Osprey, which is distinguished from all the 

 British species of this family, by living exclusively on fish. 



