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thickly streaked lengthwise with rusty on a whitish ground; bill black at tip, bluish gray 
at base; cere and feet yellow; iris brown. Young resemble adults of the same sex. 
Male: Length 8.75 to 10.60 inches; wing 6.55 to 8.05; tail 4.20 to 5.45. [Female: 
Length 9.50 to 12; wing 6.90 to 8.15; tail 4g°0 to 5.60 inches. 
Family 39. PANDIONIDA’. Ospreys or Fish Hawks. 
148. Osprey. Pandion haliaetus carolinensis (Gmel.). (364) 
Synonyms: American Osprey, Fish Hawk, Fishing Eagle.—Falco carolinensis, Gmel., 
1788.—Pandion carolinensis of authors generally.—Pandion americanus, Vieill.—Pandion 
haliaetus, Rich.—<Accipiter piscatorius, Catesby, 1754. 
Fig. 76. Osprey; Fish Hawk. 
From Coues’ Key to North American Birds, 5th ed., 1903. 
Dana Estes & Co. 
Figure 76. 
Intermediate in size between the larger hawks and the eagles, but readily 
distinguished from both by the character of the feet. Instead of three toes 
in front and ‘one behind, as in all other hawks and eagles, this bird has the 
outer toe reversible—turning front or back—as in the owls, and moreover 
all the claws are of equal size, and long, slender, awl-like and much curved, 
while the soles of the feet and under sides of the toes are thickly studded 
