20 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



Dimensions. 



Inches. Lines. Inches. Lines. 



Length from the tip of the bill to the end of Length of the cere on the ridge of the bill 8 



the tail ..... 38 Distance between the eye and the nostril . 1 9 



„ of the tail .... 14 Length of the tarsus .... 3 3 



„ of the longest quill feather 22 ,, hind claw in a straight line . 1 6 



„ of the bill, measured on its ridge .36 „ ditto, following its curvature 2 3 



„ ,, from the angle of the „ middle toe ... 3 



mouth ..... 3 6 „ claw .... 1 3 



A young bird, measuring also thirty-eight inches in length, had a black bill; and 

 plumage mostly of a dull-brown, variegated with paler brown and some white. 

 Its tail was blackish-brown, slightly mottled with white. It is said that these 

 birds do not attain their perfect plumage, with a white head and tail, until they 

 reach their fourth year. 



[6.] 3. Aquila (Pandion) Hali^eeta. The Osprey. 



Genus. Aquila. Antiquohum. Sub-genus. Pandion. Savigny. 



Osprey, var. A. Carolina. Lath. Syn., i., p. 40, sp. 2C. Idem. Suppl., p. 13. 



Osprey. Penn. Arct. Zool., ii., p. 199, No. 91. Selby. Brit. Orn., L, p. 12, pi. 4. 



Falco Halia?etus y Lath. Ind., i., p. 18, sp. 30. 



Aquila Haliaeetus. Meyer. Tasch., i., p. 25. 



Fish-hawk, or Osprey. (Falco Ha/icetus.) Wilson, v., p. 1, pi. 37- 



Falco Haliaetus. Buonap. Syn., p. 26, No. 8. 



Common Brown Fishing-eagle. Hudson's Bay Residents. 



Eethin-neesew. Ckee Indians. 



This active and industrious fisher is well known in the fur countries as a fre- 

 quenter of rapids and cascades during the summer season, particularly in rocky 

 districts, in whose clear waters it can more readily discern its prey. It arrives 

 in the months of March or April, and immediately commences building a new 

 nest or re-occupies its old one, which is almost invariably on a tree, and is com- 

 posed of long sticks, heaped on each other, and intermixed with large tufts of grass, 

 roots, and other wrack, collected from the shores of the lakes. The choice that 

 it makes of a breeding-place shows that it is not a distrustful bird, for it often 

 places its nest near frequented paths and on a tree of very easy ascent. Wilson 

 remarks that the purple grakles are permitted by this bird to build their nests 

 amongst the interstices of the sticks of which its own is framed, where they hatch 

 their young and live together in harmony. The same observation has been made 



