ORDER ACCIPITRES. 39 



Blagre Eagle, Lath. {F. Blagrus, Daud. Vail. O. A. 

 t. 5.) 



Glossy white; head, nape, lesser wing coverts and 

 tail pale gray brown ; tail white-tipt ; legs yellow, 

 greater quills dusky black. Cape of Good Hope. 



The OsPREYS, or Bald Buzzards. (Pandion, Savigny.) 

 Triorchis of Vieillot. 



Have the beak and feet of the fisher eagles^ but their 

 nails are round underneath, while in other birds of 

 prey they are bent and channeled ; their tarsi are re- 

 ticulated, and the second wing feather is the longest. 

 Only one species is known, which is spread over 

 the fresh-water banks of nearly all the world, with 

 little variations in plumage. 



The Osprey, or Balbuzard, Fish Hawk of America. (F. 

 halicetus, Lin.) Enl. 414, and Catesby, ii. Wilson, A. O. 

 t. 5. f. 1. 



One-third smaller than F. ossifragus ; white, with a 

 brown mantle, and a brown band descending from 

 the angle of the beak toward the back ; brown spots 

 on the head and neck, and sometimes on the breast ; 

 the cere and feet sometimes yellow, sometimes blue. 



Carolina Osprey. F.Carolinnensis, Lin. H.Ameri- 

 canus, Vieill. Gall. Ois. t. 11. Aq^dla piscatrix, 

 VieiL O. A. S. t. 4. are, perhaps, vai'ieties. 



The Cayenne Osprey, Lath. F. Cayenensis, Gmel. 

 is, perhaps, a variety. 



Some species differ in the tarsi being long, and the 

 toes short and united at the base, which form the 



