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wliite ; bill yellowish, and almost as large as the Common Eagle of 

 Europe. It inhabits North America, and is continually occupied in 

 fishing. It appears occasionally in the north of Europe. When 

 young, the head and body are of a cinereous brown. It must not l)e 

 confounded, however, with the old White-Headed Pygargus. 

 We remark, among the Foreign Fishing Eagles, 

 F. ponticerianus, Gm.; Enl. 416; Vieillot, Gal. 10. (The Ga- 

 ruda). Less than a kite ; of a fine lively chestnut red ; head, neck, 

 and breast, white, or pearl grey. It is from India, and is the Ga- 

 riida Eagle, which, in the religion of the Bramins, is sacred to 

 Vishnu*. • 



Pandion, Savicjny. 



The Ospreys have the bill and feet of the Fisher Eagles; but their 

 claws are round underneath, while in other birds of prey these are grooved 

 or channelled; their tarsi are reticulated, and the second quill of their 

 wings is the longest. 



Only one species is known, which is found along the shores of fresh 

 waters in almost every part of the globe, varying but little in plumage ; it 

 is the 



Falco halicetus, L. ; Enl. 414; and better, Catesby, II; Wils. V. ■"° 

 xxxvii; Vieillot, Gal. ii; Naum. 16. (The Osprey). A third . 

 smaller than the Ossifragus ; white, with a brown mantle ; a brown 

 band descending from the angle of the bill towards the back ; brown 

 spots on the head and back of the neck, also a few on the breAst ; 

 the cera and feet, sometimes yellow, and sometimes blue, ^he 

 species of the genus, ^. 



Circa ETUS, Vieillot, « j^^^ 



Are constituted in a manner intermediate between the Fisher-Eagles, the « 

 Ospreys, and the Buzzards. They have the wings of the Eagle and Buz-lS| 

 zard, and the reticulated tarsi of the Osprey ; as 



F. gallicus, Gm. ; F. leucopsis, Bechst. ; F. brachydactylus, 

 Tem. ; Enl. 413; Naum. 15; Jean le Blanc. Superior in size to 

 the Osprey; the curvature of its bill is more sudden than in the 

 other Eagles, and the toes are shorter in proportion. It is brown 

 above, white beneath, with pale browni spots ; three light bands on 

 the tail. Its carriage is rather that of a Buzzard than of an Eagle, 

 and it feeds chiefly on Frogs and Serpents. 



F. ecaudatus, Sh. ; Le Baieleur, Vaill. Afric. 7 and 8. (The 

 Mountebank). An African species, remarkable for the extreme 



* Here should come the Blagre, Vaill. Afric. 5, {Falc. hlagrus, Sh.) which is pro- 

 bably the F. leucogasler, Lath., or Aigle oceanique, Col. 49; — the vocifer, Vaill. Af. 4, 

 (F. vocifer, Sh.);— the Caffre, Vaill. Afr. 6 {F. vultutinus, Sh.);— the Aigle de Mace 

 of Bengal, {F.wacei, Cuv.) Col. 8 and 22^ -.—ihe Aigle agida, {F.aguia, T.) Col.,302; 

 — the F. ichtijatus, Ilorsf. Jav. ; — the Milvago ochrocephalus, Sp. I. or Chimachima, 

 Azz., or F. degener, Illig. We should also remember that the transition from the 

 Eagles to the Buzzards is effected by insensible gradations. 

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