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OSPREY EAGLE. 





"Falco Haliaetus. F. supra fuscus, subtus albas, capite albido, cera 



pedibusque cwndeis. 

 Brown Eagle, white beneath, with whitish head, and blue cere 



and legs. 

 Falco Haliaetus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Haliaetus. Aldrov. p. 1 88. Morphnos. p. 211. 

 The Bald Buzzard. Will. orn. p. 6g. 

 Balbuzardus Anglorum, Bald Buzzard, or Sea Eagle. Rait 



syn. 

 Osprey. Penn. Brit. Zool. Lath. syn. 

 Le Balbuzard. Buff. ois. 



The names of this and the preceding species, to 

 use an expression of Sir Thomas Brown, present a 

 puzzling homonymy; both being called by differ- 

 ent writers by the name of Osprey and Sea Eagle. 

 Its size is much inferior to that of the Falco 

 Ossifragns, and its proportions more approach to 

 those of the Falcon tribe. Its general length 

 seems to be about two feet. A female observed 

 by Mr. Pennant measured twenty-three inches 

 in length, and five feet four inches in breadth. 

 The bill is black, with a blue cere: the irides 

 yellow: most of the feathers of the head brown 

 with white margins: the hind-head, throat, and 

 neck white, with very little mixture of brown: 

 on each side the neck, beginning from beneath the 

 eye, is a band of brown, reaching almost to the 

 shoulders: the body is brown above, and white 

 beneath: the tail-feathers transversly bar-red with 

 white on the inner webs 5 the two middle feathers 



