314 PAKDIONID^. 



1189. Pandion haliaetus. The Osprey. 



Falco haliaetus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 129 (1766). 



Pandion haliaetus, Blyth, Cat. p. 29 ; Horsf. Sf M. Cat. i, p. 52 ; 



Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 80 ; Hume, 'Rouyh Notes, p. 234 ; id. S. F. 



i, p. 159; xi, p. 11 ; id. Cat. no. 40; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i,p. 449; 



Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 16 ; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 199 ; Vidal, S. F. 



ix, p. 32 ; Butler, ibid. p. 373 ; Beqge, Birds Ceyl. p. 122 ; Qurnet/, 



Ibis, 1882, p. 594 ; Oates, B. B. "ii, p. 220 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. 



p. 38. 



Machariya, Machmanya, H. ; Macharany, Nepal ; Machmoral, Bala, B. ; 

 Koramin gedda, Tel. ; Heyyuli, Yerkli ; Verali-addi-jjony, Tarn. ; Pantiong, 

 Lepcha ; Woon-let, Burm. 



Fig. 80. — Left foot of P. haliaetus, ^. 



Coloration. Head and ueck white, the feathers along the middle 

 of the crown and nape, and sometimes at the sides, with conspi- 

 cuous brown shaft-lines and tips ; a broad dark brown band from 

 each eye down the side of the neck ; upper parts glossy brown ; 

 tail the same, the rectrices more or less distinctly barred with 

 paler brown above, with white below, especially on the inner webs 

 of all except the middle pair ; in old birds the bars tend to become 

 obsolete ; quills blackish ; lower parts white, except on the upper 

 breast, where the feathers are brown with dark shafts and white 

 edges, that are sometimes very broad, but occasionally wanting ; 

 wing-hning brown, mixed with white or fulvous. 



In the young the dark feathers of the dorsal surface are 

 pale-edged, the tail is more closely and more distinctly barred, 

 and the breast either unmarked or only shghtly spotted with 

 brown. 



Bill black ; cere, gape, and eyelids dull greenish blue ; irides 

 bright yellow ; legs pale greenish or yellowish ; claws black. 



