448 



FALCONIB^. 



Young. Browner than the adult, the hind neck more streaked with 

 white ; a rather distinct whitish eyebrow narrowly streaked with 

 blackish, as also the cheeks and sides of neck; wing-coverts and 

 secondaries externally spotted with rufous, the spots on the latter 

 somewhat tinged with grey ; the cross markings on the back pale 

 fulvous ; primaries black, all the quills barred with white on the 

 inner web ; tail black, barred with rufous, inclining to white on the 

 inner web, the markings almost obsolete on the centre tail-feathers ; 

 under surface of tail paler, the bars whitish ; under surface of body 

 dull white, streaked on the chest and barred on the breast ; abdomen 

 and under wing- and tail-coverts with pale brown. 



Eah. Madagascar. 

 a. 2 ad. st, Mouroundava, S.W. Madagascar. Herr Van Dam [C.]. 



Suborder PANDIONES. 



Outer toe reversible ; toes devoid of feathers ; eyes placed 

 laterally in the head ; no facial disk ; plumage very close and 

 compact ; nostrils not concealed by bristles. 



Key to the Genera. 



a. Distance between tips of primaries and tips 



of secondaries greater than length of tarsus 79. Pandion, p. 448. 



b. Distance between tips of primaries and se- 



condaries less than length of tarsus 80. Polioaetus, p. 452. 



79. PANDION. 



Type. 



Pandion, Saviffn. Descr. Egypte, Ois. p. 272 (1809) P. haliaetus. 



Triorches, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Brit. Mus. p. 10 



(1816) P. haliaetus. 



Balbusardus, Fleinitig, Brit. An. p. 51 (1828) P. haliaetus. 



Leg of Pandion haliaetus. 



