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FALCON 1D.E. 



Digiti liberi, externus versa- 

 tilis ; ungues aequales, sub- 

 tus rotundati. 



Remex secunda longissima. 



Toes free, the outer one ver- 

 satile ; claws equal, round- 

 ed beneath. 



Wings with the second quill 

 longest. 



Ospreys frequent the borders of rivers and lakes, 

 and feed chiefly on fish. 



Sp. 1. Pa. Haliaeetus Auctorum. 



Falco Haliaeetus. Shaix, u.vii. p. 82. — Inhabits Britain and 

 other parts of Europe: also found in North America. 

 Sp. 2. Pa. Americanus. 



Falco Americanus. Shaiv, v. vii. p. 88. — Wils. Amer. Orn. 

 pi. 37. f. 1. — North America. 

 Sp. 3. Pa. Ichthyaeetus. 

 VA.Jiiscescens, ventre postice crisso Cauda cruribusque albis, Cauda 



apice nigrescente. 

 Brownish Osprey with the belly behind, the rump^ tail, and 



thighs white, the tail dusky at the tip. 

 Falco Ichthyaeetus. Linn. Tra?is. — Horsfield, xiii. p. 136. — 



Temm. PL Col. 3 1 1 .—Marine Eagle. Lath. Gen. Hist. i. 1 60. 



Inhabits Java : called Jokowurn. Length two 

 feet four inches : beak long : nostrils large : cere with 

 a few hairs on the sides : plumage in general brownish : 

 quills deep brown : head grey : chin whitish : neck 

 brownish-grey : breast and belly pale ferruginous- 

 brown : lower part of the latter, the vent, and thighs, 

 white : tail dusky at the tip. 



GENUS X.— HALLEETUS, Savigny. SEA-EAGLE. 



Rostrum supra convexum ; 

 nares lunulatae, transverse ; 

 ceroma subhispidum. 



Beak convex above ; nostrils 

 lunulated, transverse ; ce- 

 roma subhisped. 



