FALCON. 13 



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White-crowned E. Gen. Syn,\. p. 42. N''23, WHITE- 



CROWNED E. 



npHIS fpecies is the fmalleft of the Eagles, being not much 

 larger than the Jean-le-blanc : is only met with on the rivers 

 towards the Cafpian fea, breeding along with the Sear-Eagles on the 

 higheft trees *» 



Ofprey, Gen. Syn. 1. p, 45. N" iS.—Ara. Zool. N" 91. 26.. 



Falco halistus. Mull. Prod. N' 66. —Georgi Rei/e, p. i6^.—Koli. Cap. li. "^ OSPREY, 

 p. 1 37 ? 



'T'HIS bird and its varieties are far fpread, being met with in 

 various parts of the old continent : frequent in Kamtjchatka^ 

 and parts ftill more northward, in the fummer \ migrating, as the 

 winter approaches, towards x\\t Jouth ■\ : in all fituations, is the 

 procurer of food for the White-tailed and other Eagles. KKolben's, 

 bird be really our Ofprey, he obferves that it is, of all birds, the 

 moft deftrudtive to the Flying-fijh, taking them up during their rife 

 from the water J.. 



• Mr. Pennant. 



•]- Found about Baikal : common at Afirachan, Dec. Rujf. vol. iLp. 142, 



J Kolben afferts for fad, that one foot is made like that of a Goofe; but his 



having been impofed on, cannot alter the faft of its being otherwife. See Sy7i, 



-vol. i, p. 45. _ 



Com men 



