PELECANID^. 105 



Pandion haliaetus. Osprby. 



Falco Halisetus, Linnteus, S.N. i. p. 139 (1766). 

 Falco haliaetos, Naum. i. p. 241. 

 Pandion haliaetus, Macg. iii. p. 239 ; Gray, p. 5 j Gould, i. 



pi. 5 ; Dresser, vi. p. 139. 

 Pandion haliseetus, Hewitson, p. 19 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 25 ; id. 



ed. 3, i. p. 30; Newton, i. p. 30; Harting, p. 3. 

 Osprey, or Fishing-Hawk, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 20. 



Haliaetus = dXiaeros, » Sea-Eagle, in classical Greek poets ; from aXs + 

 aeros. 



A cosmopolitan species. A rather scarce visitor to England ; 

 still known to breed in Scotland; an accidental visitor in 

 Ireland. 



Order STEGANOPODES. 



Family PELECANIDiE. 



Genus PHALACROCOEAX, Brisson, Ornith. vi. p. 511 



(1760). 



Fhalacrocorax, from (paXaspos = bald-headed, and Kopaf = a Eaven. 



Phalacrocorax carbo. Cormoeant. 



Pelecanus Carbo, Linnmus, S.N. i. p. 216 (1766) . 



Haliens cormoranus, Naum. xi. p. 52. 



Phalacrocorax carbo, Macg. v. p. 380 ; Hewitson, p. 471 ; 



Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 480; id. ed. 8, iii. p. 484; Gould, v. 



pi. 52; Dresser, vi. p. 151. 

 Graculus carbo. Gray, p. 246; Harting, p. 75. 

 The Common Cormorant, Yai'r. ed. 1, iii. p. 373. 



Carbo = a coal ; perhaps from the bird's sooty blackness. 



Generally distributed around the British coasts, especially 

 in the north, and breeds not only on the sea-cli£fs, but on 

 many inland waters. Almost a cosmopolitan, but not found 

 on the American shores of the Pacific. 



