TI2 AU.En's naturalist's LII'.RARY. 



of Australia and tlie Moluccas is a smaller bird, but cannot be 

 considered a distinct species, while the American Osprey I 

 consider to be absolutely identical with the ordinary bird of 

 the Old World. 



There is but one genus in the Sub-order, namely the genus 

 Fandion^ Savigny, Descr. de I'Egypte, p. 272 (1809). 

 Type, P. halia'ctus (L.). 

 the characters of which have been alluded to above. 



I. THE OSPREY. PANDION HALIAI^TUS. 



Faico halia'ctus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 129 (1766). 



Faiidion halia'e'tus^ Macg. Brit. B. iii. p. 239(1840); Newton, 



ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i^ p. 30 (1871); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus. i. p. 449 (1874) ; Dresser, B. Eur. vi. p. 139, pi. 



387 (1876) ; Seeb. Br. B. i. p. 55 (1883) ; B. O. U. List 



Br. B. p. 105 (1883) ; Saunders, Man. Br. B. p. 347 (1889). 



Adult Male. — General colour above dark brown, the feathers 

 with indistinct edges of paler brown ; quills blackish, the 

 primaries uniform whity-brown below, the secondaries whitish 

 on the inner web, and indistinctly barred with ashy-brown ; 

 tail almost uniform brown, the inner webs whitish with obso- 

 lete bars of ashy-brown ; head brown, mottled with white 

 bases to the feathers ; from behind the eye a broad white 

 streak, extending down the sides of the neck; the ear-coverts 

 blackish-brown ; sides of neck like the back ; sides of face 

 and under surface of body white, the chin and fore-part of 

 cheeks slightly streaked with dark-brown ; breast with brown 

 centres to the feathers; some of the flank-feathers and the 

 axillaries marked with rufous-brown, like the breast; bill black, 

 the cere blue; feet blue; iris yellow. Total length, 24 inches; 

 culmen, 175; wing, i9"8; tail, 95; tarsus, 2-4. 



Adult Female. — Resembles the male in colour. Total length, 

 21 inches; wing, 19-0. 



Young. — Chocolate-brown, the feathers plainly edged with 

 buffy-white, more broadly on the secondaries and upper tail- 

 coverts ; crown black, with white edges to the feathers, im- 

 parting a streaked appearance ; nape white ; tail-feathers brown, 



