$329. 
232 
Pandion haliaétus haliaétus (Linn.), S.N., 
i., p. 91 (1758). [Europe =Sweden.] 
Common Osprey. 
Wing ad. 480-530 mm.; head white, the 
crown striped with blackish brown ; nape 
feathers elongated and lanceolate; ear- 
coverts and stripe through eye blackish 
brown; above dark brown, with paler 
margins to most of the feathers ; tail dark 
brown, inner webs barred with dark brown 
and whitish; below white, the breast 
varied with pale brown centres to the 
feathers ; bill black; feet blue. 
$*329a. Pandion haliaétus carolinensis (Gmel.), 
329b. 
S.N., i, p. 263 (1788). (Carolina, ex 
Catesby.] 
American Osprey. 
Size similar; wing ¢ 460-490, 2 492-518 
mm.; dark markings of head blacker ; 
above darker and richer brown; less marked 
on under side ; tail with indistinct darker 
bars on central feathers. 
Pandion haliaétus ridgwayi [‘ Ridgweir,”’ 
err.] C. J. Maynard, Amer. Exch. and Mart, 
Boston, Jan. 15, 1887. [Bitter Guana 
Key, Bahama Is., type in Brit. Mus. (?)] 
Bahaman Osprey. 
Size similar; wing 9 [M.C.Z.], 495 mm. ; 
head, hind neck, and under parts pure 
white, with only one or two dark specks on 
crown, and slight streaks on chest. 
Europe, from 
Lapland (and 
formerly Scot- 
land) to the 
Mediterranean 
and Coasts of 
N. Africa and 
Red Sea ; 
S. Arabia ; 
N. Asia to 
Japan and 
Kamtschatka. 
N. America, N. 
to Newfound- 
land and 
Alaska ; 
S. in winter to 
Cent. America ; 
S. America, 
S. to Peru and 
Paraguay. 
Bahama Is. 
