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f329. Pandion haliaUus haliaetus (Linn.), 

 i., p. 91 (1758). [Europe =Sweden.] 

 Common Osprey. 



S.N. 



Wing ad. 480-530 mm. ; head white, the 

 crown striped with blackish brown ; nape 

 feathers elongated and lanceolate ; ear- 

 coverts and stripe through eye blackish 

 brown ; above dark brown, with paler 

 margins to most of the feathers ; tail dark 

 brown, inner webs barred with dark brown 

 and whitish ; below white, the breast 

 varied with pale brown centres to the 

 feathers ; bill black ; feet blue. 



Europe, from 

 Lapland (and 

 formerly Scot- 

 land) to the 

 Mediterranean 

 and Coasts of 

 N. Africa and 

 Red Sea ; 

 S. Arabia ; 

 N. Asia to 

 Japan and 

 Kamtschatka. 



j*329a. Pandion haliaetus carolinensis (Gmel.), 

 S.N., i., p. 263 (1788). [Carolina, ex 

 Catesby.] 

 American Osprey. 



Size similar ; wing S 460-490, ? 492-518 

 mm. ; dark markings of head blacker ; 

 above darker and richer brown ; less marked 

 on under side ; tail with indistinct darker 

 bars on central feathers. 



N. America, N. 

 to Newfound- 

 land and 

 Alaska ; 

 S. in winter to 

 Cent. America ; 

 S. America, 

 S. to Peru and 

 Paraguay. 



329b. Pandion haliaetus ridgwayi [" Ridgweir," 

 err.] C. J. Maynard, Amer. Exch. and Mart, 

 Boston, Jan. 15, 1887. [Bitter Guana 

 Key, Bahama Is., type in Brit. Mus (?)] 

 Bahaman Osprey. 



Size similar ; wing ? [M.C.Z.], 495 mm. ; 

 head, hind neck, and under parts pure 

 white, with only one or two dark specks on 

 crown, and slight streaks on chest. 



Bahama Is. 



