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Falco haliastus, L'in.Syft. p. 129. N° 26. 

 L'Aigle de Mer. Brif. cm. i. p. 440. t. 34. N° IO. 

 Le Balbuzard, Buf. oij. i. p- 103. t. 2.— PI. oil. 414. 

 R'orphnos, Rail Syn. p. 7. K°6. 

 Bale Buzzard, Will. cm. p. 6g. t. 6. 

 Gfprey, .£7-. Zool. i. p. 174.. — i-7. Scot. i. t. It 

 5?-. Mi,/. Lev. Muf. 



HPHE length Is one foot eleven inches. The bill is black: cere 

 blue: iris yellow: moft of the feathers on the head are 

 brown, with white margins : hind head, throat, and neck, white, 

 with very little mixture of brown : on each fide of the neck, be- 

 ginning from beneath the eye, is a band of brown, reaching al- 

 Hioft to the fhoulders : the body is brown above, and white be- 

 neath : tail-feathers tranfverfely barred with white on the inner 

 webs j the two middle ones plain brown: legs naked, fhort, 

 ftrong, and of a blueifh a£h-colour : claws remarkably long, 

 hooked, and black : bottoms of the feet blueifh,- 



This bird inhabits Europe; chiefly in places near the water, as 

 it's prey is fifh, which it plunges after into the water with great 

 rapidity, feldom miffing it's aim ; and, bringing them up in it's 

 talons, retires to a fmall diftance to feaft on them. It alfo preys 

 on ducks i but all authors agree, that it is fondefr. of fifb. 



I fhall take the liberty here to remark an error that Linnaeus 



has fallen into, from old authors who have mentioned it before 



him, viz. that the left foot is fuhpalmated. — This,! can afrure- 



the reader, has not the lean; foundation in truth *„. 



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*'I do not believe that there is either bird or quadruped, in which each fide 

 of the body does not correfpond in fize and fhape, in a natural Hate, though' 



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