62 FALCON. 



not less than 600 fish daily." It generally fishes on the wing, 

 darting after its prey into the water ; but Mr. Abbot has obserA ed 

 one sitting for a long time on the top of a dead tree, close to the 

 water, from which it darted on the fish. 



C — iFalco cayanensis, Ind. Orn. i. 18. Gm. Lin. i. 263. Daud, ii. 69. C. 

 Cayenne Osprey, Gen, Si/n, i. 47. B. 



This variety diifers chiefly in having the plumage inclining to 

 femiginons, and a wliite streak on each side of the upper mandible, 

 leading through the eye to the hindhead. The length of this bird 

 is 26 inches, breadth oft. 2in, ; legs yellowish. 



Inhabits Cayenne ; in the collection of Miss Blomefield. 



D— Falco Levenanus, Ind. Orn. i. p. 18. Gm. Lin, i. 266. Daud. ii, 126. Sliaiv'i 



Zool, vii. p. 151. 

 Leverian Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup, p. 31. Arct Zool, ii, 101. 



Tliis is rather smaller than the common Osprey. Bill dusky 

 blue, stout, and hooked ; head, neck, and under parts white ; crown 

 of the head mixed brown and white ; body above bro\\ii ; the feathers 

 margined and tipped with white ; on each side of the head a dusky 

 mark, as in the Osprey ; tail barred brown and white, except the 

 two middle feathers, which are brown and black, the shafts white ; 

 legs yellow. 



Tliis is said to inhabit Carolina, was met with in the Leverian 

 Collection, and is probably a further variety. The Osprey is also 

 said to be not micommon in Brazil. 



