General 
descrip- 
tion. 
Young 
bird. 
Locality. 
12 RAPACES. FALCO. EacuLes. 
same, but deeper in tint. Upper tail coverts white. 
Tail white. Quills blackish-brown, the shafts of the 
feathers pale. Legs feathered a short way below the 
knee, colour straw-yellow. Claws black and strong. 
Piate 3*. Represents the young of this species, or in that 
state in which it has been named the Sea Eagle (Falco 
ossifragus of authors). 
Bill bluish-black, paler towards the base. Cere wax-yellow. 
Irides pale chesnut-brown. Head and neck dark-brown, 
the tips of the feathers rather paler, the roots white. 
Upper parts reddish-brown, the feathers paler towards 
the base, and having the whole of their shafts dark. © 
Under parts brown, of different shades, intermixed with 
a few white feathers. Quills brownish-black. Tail 
marbled with shades of hair and clove-brown, and dark- 
est towards the end. 
Osprey.—F alco Halizetus, Linn. 
PLATE 4. 
Falco Halizetus, Linn. 1. p. 129. 26.—Fauna Suec. No. 63.—Lath. Ind. 
Ornith. 1. p. 17. 30.—Gme/. Syst. 1. p. 263.—Muller, No. 66.—Briss. 1. 
p- 440. 10. t. 34. 
Aquila Halizetus, Meyer, Taschenb. Deut. 1. p. 17. 
Falco arundinaceus, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 263. var. B. a female in moult. 
Morphnos seu Clanga, Rati, Syn. p. 7. 6.—Will. Ang. p. 63. 
Le Balbusard, Buff: Ois. v. 1. p. 103. t. 2.—Jd. Pl. En]. 414. 
Aigle Balbusard, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 1. p. 47. 2d. 
Flusadler, Bechst. Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 12.— Meyer, Voég. Deut. v. 2. 
Heft 23. a figure of the Male. 
Osprey, Br. Zool. 1. No. 46.—Id. fol. p. 65. t. A. 1.—Arct. Zool. 2. No. 91. 
—Lath. Ind. Syn. 1. p. 45. 26.—Id. Suppl. p. 13.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 1. 
t. 5.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Jd. Sup.— Wale. Syn. 1. t. 5.—White’s Hist. 
Selb. p. 97.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. 13.—Shaw’s Zool. 7. p. 82.—Don. 
Br. Birds, 3. t. 79.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 2. 
Carolina Osprey, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 46. 26. A. 
Cayenne Osprey, Lath. Syn. 1. p. 47. 26. B. 
Provincial, Fishing-Hawk, Fishing-Eagle, Bald Buzzard. 
According to Montacu, this species appears to be more. 
abundant in Devonshire, than in any other part of the king- 
