24 RAPTORES. PANDION. Osprev. 



connection between the two. The Ospreys are strictly pisci- 

 vorous. They capture their prey by pouncing it when 

 swimming near the surface, and are so fastidious as generally 

 to refuse it, however fresh, unless taken alive by themselves. 

 They possess a form and structure admirably adapted for 

 the mode of living they pursue, their body being long and 

 narrow, yet sufficiently compact and muscular ; their limbs 

 powerful ; and feet furnished with toes and claws of such 

 size and strength as to embrace a considerable surface, and 

 take a very firm grasp of their slippery prey, and at the 

 same time so constituted as to allow of that grasp being 

 quickly withdrawn in case of danger, or from having attack- 

 ed a fish too unwieldy to be raised from the water. Their 

 plumage is also different in texture from that of the other 

 Aquiline groups, being firmer and more closely set, particu- 

 larly upon the lower parts of the body ; and the thighs are 

 destitute of the long plumes that adorn the rest of the Fal- 

 conidae. 



OSPREY. 



Pandion Halimetus, Saviff. 

 PLATE IV. 



Balbusardis Haliseetus, F/em. Brit. Aiiim. 1. 51. No. 15. 



Falco Haliajetus, Linn. 1. p. 129. 26 — Fauna Suec. No, C3 — Lath. Ind. 



Ornith. 1. p. 1?. 30 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 263 — Muller, No. GG.—Bi-iss. 1. 



p. 440. 10. t. 34. 

 Aquila Haliaeetus, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 17» 

 Falco arundinaceus, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 263. var. I?, a female in moult. 

 Morphnos seu Clanga, Raii, Syn. j). 7- C. — Will. Ang. p. 63. 

 Le Ealbusard, JB;(/f: Ois. v, 1. p. 103. t. 2 — Id. Pi. Enl. 414. 

 Aigle Balbusard, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 1. p. 47- 2d. 

 Flusadler, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 12 — Meyer, Vog. Deut. v. 2. 



Heft 23. a figure of the Male. 

 Osprey, Br. Zool. 1. No. AG.— Id. fol. p. 65. t. A. 1.— Arct.Zool. 2. No. 91. 



— Lath. Ind. Syn. 1. p. 45. 26 — Id. Suppl. p. 13 — Lewin's Br. Birds, 1. 



t. 5 Mont. Ornith. Diet Id. Sup Wale. Syn. 1. t. 5.— White's Hist. 



Selb. p. 97. — Bewick's Br. Birds, I. p. 13 — Shaw's Zool. 7- p- 82 — Don. 



Br. Birds, 3. t. 70 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 2. 



Carolina Osprey, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 46. 26. A. 

 Cayenne Osprey, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 47. 26. B. 



Provincial,— Fishing Hawk, Fishing Eagle, Bald Buzzard. 



