ACCIPITRES. 1 
white; 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 be 
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- 
ruda Eagle, which, in the religion of the Bramins, is sacred to 
Vishnu*. 
Panpion, Savigny. 
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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 halietus, L.; Enl. 414; and better, Catesby, IT; 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. The 
species of the genus, 
Circaetus, Vieillot, 
Are constituted in a manner intermediate between the Fisher-Hagles, the 
Ospreys, and the Buzzards. They have the wings of the Eagle and Buz- 
zard, and the reticulated tarsi of the Osprey; as 
F. gallicus, Gm.; F. leucopsis, Bechst.; F'. brachydactylus, 
Tem.; Enl. 413; Naum. 15; Jeanle 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 brown 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 Bateleur, Vaill. Afric. 7 and 8. (The 
Mountebank). An African species, remarkable for the extreme 
* Here should come the Blagre, Vaill. Afric. 5, (Fale. blagrus, Sh.) which is pro- 
bably the F. leucoyaster, Lath., or Aigle oceanique, Col. 49;—the vocifer, Vaill. Af. 4, 
(F. vocifer, Sh.);—the Caffre, Vaill. Afr. 6 (7. vulturinus, Sh.);—the Aigle de Macé 
of Bengal, (£. macei, Cuv.) Col. 8 and 223;—the Aigle aguia, (F. aguia, T.) Col.,302; 
—the F. ichtyetus, Horsf. Jav.;—the Milvago ochrocephalus, Sp. 1. or Chimachima, 
Azz., or F’. degener, Ulig. We should also remember that the transition from the 
Eagles to the Buzzards is effected by insensible gradations. 
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