A C C I P I T R E S. 



Suborder PANDIONES. 



Differs structurally from Falcones in having the outer toe reversible. Plumage very close 

 and compact, otherwise as in Falcones. 



Genus PANDION. 



Tip of upper mandible much lengthened, curved at right angles to the commissure and very 

 acute ; lobe variable in development. Wings long and pointed, exceeding the tail ; the 3rd quill 

 generally the longest. Tail of 12 feathers and even. Tarsi short, stout, reticulated, as are also 

 the toes to the last joint. Soles of the feet prickly, and the claws rounded beneath, much curved ; 

 outer toe reversible. Feathers wanting the accessory plumule. 



PANDION HALIAETUS. 



(THE OSPREY.) 



Falco haliaetus, Linn. S. N. p. 129 (1766). 



Pandion flumalis, Sav. Descr. Egypte, Ois. p. 272 (1809). 



Aquila haliaetus, Meyer in Mey. u. Wolf, Tasch. i. p. 23 (1810). 



Accipiter haliaetus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 355 (1811). 



Balbusardus haliaetus, Flem. Brit. An. p. 51 (1828). 



Pandion haliaetus, Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 86 (1828) ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 12 (1837) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 17, pi. 7. tig. 5 (1845); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 29 (1849); Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 16 (1850); Schleg. Vog. Nederl. pi. 30 (1854); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. 



Mus. E. 1. Co. p. 52 (1854); Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 80 (1862); More, Ibis, 1865, p. 9; 



Tristram, Ibis, 1865, p. 253; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 234 (1869); Gould, B. of Gt. 



Brit. pt. xvii.( 1870); Newton, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 30 (1871); Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 



1872, p. 412 ; Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 203 (1872) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 449 (1874) ; 



Dresser, B. of Eur. pt. 49 (1876). 

 Pandion alticeps, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 33 (1831). 



Pandion carolinensis, Audub. B. N. Am. pi. 81, et Orn. Biogr. i. p. 415 (1831). 

 Pandion* indicus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Miscel. p. 81 (1844). 

 The Fishing-Haivk, Catesby, N. H. Carol, i. pi. 2 (1731). 

 Le Faucon pescheur de la Caroline, Briss. Orn. i. p. 362 (1790), also Aigle de Met; Briss. ibid. 



p. 440. 

 Le Balbuzard, Buff. PI. Enl. i. pi. 414. 

 " Fish-IIavjk," popularly, America and England; Fischaar, FischhabicM, German; Visch- 



