PLATE LXX. 



FALCO HALIiETUS. 

 O S P R E Y. 



ACCIPITRES. 



Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked. An angle in each 

 margin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females larger 

 and more beautiful than the males. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Bill arched from the bafe, which is covered with a wax-like mem- 

 brane or cere. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



s r n o n r m $. 



Cere and Feet blue. Back brown. Head whitifh. 



Falco Hali^etus: cera pedibufque camileis, corpore fupra fufco 



fubtus albo, capite albido. — Fn. Suec, Lin. 



Syji. Nat. i. p. 91. 21. edit. 10. 

 Haliaetus, feu aquila marina. Gefner av. 804. 

 Falco cyanopus. Klein Stem. Tab. 8. 

 Auguifta piumbina, Aquilaftro, Halixtus, feu Morphnos. Aldr. 



av. I. 105. 114* 

 Falco Haliaetus. Georgi Reife. p. 164.. 



Kolben Cape of Good Hope. 2. p. 137. ? 



OSPREY, 



