68 FALCON. 



10.— OSPREY. 



Falco Haliaeetus, 7n<f. Oni.i. p. 17. Lin. Si/st.\. 129. Faun. suec. "No. G3. Gm. Lin. 



i. 263. Bris.'i.U0.t.24. /rf. 8vo. 126. Brun.p.b. 3Itdl. 'No.66. Kolb.Cap. 



ii. p. 137. Georgi. p. 164. Borotvsk. Nat.ii. p. 71. 6. Beckst. Deut.u. s. 250. 



Baud. n. p. 67. Shatv's Zool. vn. p.S2. Gesner. Av. p.l96. S04. Tern. Man. 



d'Orn.p.16. Jd.ed.n. p. 48. 

 Morphnos, sen Clanga, jRai?.5yn. p. 7. JF«//. p. 32. Id. Engl. 63. 

 BaAhvLsavdus, Rati. Spi. p. 16. Will.p.37. Id. Engl. 69. t. 6. Gerin. Orn. i. t. 40. 



jBa/.i. p. 103. t.2. PI. Enl. 414. 

 Falco cyanops, Klein. Stem. ■p. 8. t. 8. f. i. a. b. c. 

 Aigle de Mer, Voi/. en Barb. i. 265. 



Fischaar, Wirsing. Vog. t. 47. Natiirf. viii. s. 53. Beckst. Gem. Naturg. p. 230. 

 Osprey, Gen. Si/n.\. p. 4?>. Id.Sup.p.l3. Br. Zoo/, i. No. 46, Id. fol. t. A. I. Id. 



erf. 1812. i. p. 204. Faun. Scot.l. p.l7. pLl. Arct. Zool. u. ^o.9l. Betvick.u 



pi. p. 13. Lewin. Br. Birds, i. t. 5. Id. 1. 1. f. 2. egg. Wale. Syn. i. pi. 5. Puli. 



Cat. Dorset, p. 2. White Selb. p. 97. Don. Br. Birds, iii. t. 70. Orn. Diet. ^ Sup. 



THE Osprey is nearly 2ft. in length; and the weight between 

 fovir and five pounds; bill black; cere blue; irides yellow; head 

 feathers chiefly brown, with white margins; hindhead, throat, and 

 neck, white, with a little mixture of brown on each side of the latter; 

 under the eye begins a band of brown, reaching almost to the 

 shoulders; the body brown above, white beneath ; tail feathers barred 

 with white on the inner webs, except the two middle ones, which are 

 plain bro«ai; legs naked, short, and sti-ong, of a bluish ash colour; 

 claws remarkably long, hooked, and black. Kolben mentions that 

 the left foot is subpalmated.* This assertion has certainly no 



* It does not appear that there is either bird or quadruped, in which each side of the 

 body does not correspond in a natural state, though the contrar)' is sometimes seen in insects. 

 In the common lobster and several of the crab genus, the claws differ much ; in none more so 

 than in the Carolina Sand crab (Cancer vocans Lin.), one of the claws of which is so mon- 

 strously large, as to oblige the animal to support it on the back when in motion, while the otlier 

 is very small, scarcely larger than one of the legs. In respect to winged insectSv even the 



