158 FALCON. 



somewhat beyond the tail ; legs pale blue ; claws black, large, and 

 hooked. 



Inhabits India ; called at Hindustan, Mutch-Moonggur, by the 

 Bengalese, Bullah — found also in the province of Oude, and there 

 called Mudrooh. 



81.— PISCIVOROUS EAGLE. 



Falco vocifer, Lid. Orn, Sup. p. vi. Levail. Ois. i. pi. 4. Daud. ii. p. 64. Shaw's 



Zool. vii. p. 94. 

 Aigle nonette, Gabi/ Voy. en Nigritie. 

 Piscirorous Eagle, Gen. Syn. Sup. 1. p. 33. 



SIZE and make of the Osprey ; extent of wings 8 ft. ; bill lead- 

 colour ; below that and the eye naked and yellow, except a few 

 hairs ; irides red brown ; head, neck, breast, and scapulars, white, 

 edged with brown ; on the breast a few black brown spots ; tail white ; 

 the rest of the plumage rusty brown, streaked with dingy black, 

 inclining to ferruginous on the coverts ; quills black, with lines of 

 rufous and l^lack crossing the outer webs ; lower parts of the back 

 and rump mixed black and dirty white ; lower belly and thighs deep 

 rufous ; legs naked and yellow ; the mugs when closed, reach to the 

 end of the tail. The female is more dull in colour. 



Inhabits the more inward parts of the Cape of Good Hope ; 

 most common about Lagoa Bay; called at the Cape, Groote Vis- 

 vanger or Witte Vis-vanger, as it feeds on fish, descending upon them 

 in the manner of the Osprey; said also to feed on young antelopes, 

 as well as the great lizards ; common in the Afiican rivers ; the male 



