" lid GENUS PANDION — OSPREYS. 



We annex the following description taken from the above 

 named author. 



'"'' Adult Male. — Tarsus and toes uniformly scutellate in 

 their whole length. Bill bluish black; cere yellowish 

 brown; feet orange yellow; claws bluish black. Upper 

 part of the head, hind neck, back, scapulars, rump, tail 

 coverts, and posterior tibial feathers blackish brown, glossed 

 with a coppery tint ; throat, fore neck, breast and belly light 

 brownish yellow, each feather with a blackish brown streak; 

 wing coverts light greyish brown, those next the body be- 

 coming darker; primary quills dark brown, deeper on their 

 inner webs; secondaries lighter, and on their outer webs of 

 nearly the same light tint as their coverts; tail uniform 

 dark brown. 



Length 3 feet 7 inches ; extent of wings 10 feet 2 inches ; 

 bill 3|^ inches along the back; along the gap, which com- 

 mences directly under the eye, to the W^ of the lower 

 mandible, 3^, and If deep. Length of wing, when folded, 

 32 inches; length of tail 15 inches; tarsus 1^; middle claw 

 If; hind claw 2i.'" 



Whether this is really a distinct, or the young of an other- 

 wise undescribed species, it is hard tn say. Cassin in his 

 SynojJsis favors the latter conclusion. Some have supposed 

 it to be the young of H. pelagicus^ while others have 

 thought it was onl}^ a very large specimen of the young 

 leucocepJialus. But is it not highly probable that there 

 are some undiscovered species belonging to this family that 

 inhabit the higher latitudes of British America, and may 

 we not be occasionally favored with a visit from some of 

 these birds. 



III. Genus Pandion, Savigny. — Ospbeys. 

 Bill short, curved from the base, hooked, compressed; 

 wings very long; tarsi short, very thick and strong, and 



