PELECANID^E. 105 



Pandion haliaetus. OSPREY. 



Falco Halisetus, Linnaeus, S.N. i. p. 129 (1766). 

 Falco haliaetos, Naum. i. p. 241. 

 Pandion haliaetus, Macg. iii. p. 239 ; Gray, p. 5 ; Gould, i. 



pi. 5 ; Dresser, vi. p. 139. 

 Pandion haliaeetus, Hewitson, p. 19 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 25 ; id. 



ed. 3, i. p. 30; Newton, i. p. 30; Harting, p. 3. 

 Osprey, or Fishing-Hawk, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 20. 



Haliaetus = aXiaeros, a Sea-Eagle, in classical Greek poets ; from a\s + 

 a'eros. 



A cosmopolitan species. A rather scarce visitor to England ; 

 still known to breed in Scotland; an accidental visitor in 

 Ireland. 



Order STEGANOPODES. 

 Family PELECANIDJE. 



Genus PHALACROCORAX, Brisson, Ornith. vi. p. 511 



(1760). 



Phalacrocorax, from QaXaKpos = bald-headed, and copa = a Eaven. 



Phalacrocorax carbo. 



Pelecanus Carbo, Linnaeus, S.N. i. p. 216 (1766). 



Halieus cormoranus, Naum. xi. p. 52. 



Phalacrocorax carbo, Macg. v. p. 380; Hewitson, p. 471; 



Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 480; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 484; Gould, v. 



pi. 52; Dresser, vi. p. 151. 

 Graculus carbo, Gray, p. 246; Harting, p. 75. 

 The Common Cormorant, farr. ed. 1, iii. p. 373. 



Carbo = a coal ; perhaps from the bird's sooty blackness. ^/OrtX ^JL. 



Generally distributed around the British coasts, especially 

 in the north, and breeds not only on the sea-cliffs, but on 

 many inland waters. Almost a cosmopolitan, but not found 

 on the American shores of the Pacific. 



