PLA Te Ve: 
FALCO OSSIFRAGUS. 
SEA EAGLE. 
ACCIPITRES. 
Birds of prey. Bill and claws ftrong, hooked, an angle in each 
margin of the upper mandible. Body mufcular. Females larger 
than the males. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill arched from the bafe, which is covered with a wax-like 
membrane or cere. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Cere and legs yellow; the latter feathered half-way down. Body 
brown. ‘Tail marked on interior webs with white, 
Farco Ossirracus: Lin. Syft. Nat. 
Fatco OssirxaGus: cere lutea pedibufque femilanatis, corpoge 
ferrugineo, rectricibus Jatere interiore albis. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 1. pe 12. Je 
Cc \ Halizetus 
