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FALCONID^. 



Digiti liberi, extemus versa- 

 tilis ; ungues sequales, sub- 

 tus rotundati. 



Remex secunda longissima. 



Toes free, the oiiter one ver- 

 satile ; claws equal, round- 

 ed beneath. 



Wings with the second quill 

 longest. 



OsPREYS frequent the borders of rivers and lakes, 

 and feed chiefly on fish. 



Sp. 1. Pa. Haliseetus Auctorum. 



Falco Haliseetus. Shaxx.^, v. vii. p. 82. — Inhabits Britain and 

 other parts of Europe : also found in North America. 

 Sp. 2. Pa. Americanus. 



Falco Americanus. Shavo, u. vii. p. 88. — Wils, Amer. Orn. 

 pi. .f. 1. — North America. 

 Sp. 3. Pa. Ichthyseetus. 



VA..Juscescens, ventre postice crisso caudd cruribusque albis, caudd 



apice nigrescente. 

 Brownish Osprey with the belly behind, the rump^ tail, and 



thighs white, the tail dusky at the tip. 

 Falco Ichthyseetus. Linn. Trans. — Horsfield, xiii. p. 136.-— 



Teimn. PI. Co/. 3 1 1 .—-Marine Eagle. Lath. Gen. Hist. i. 160. 



Inhabits Java : called Jolwwuru. Length two 

 feet four inches : beak long : nostrils large : cere with 

 a few hairs on the sides : plumage in general brownish : 

 quills deep brown : head grey : chin whitish : neck 

 brownish-grey : breast and belly pale ferruginous- 

 brown : lower part of the latter, the vent, and thighs, 

 white : tail dusky at the tip. 



' GENUS X.— HALmETUS, Savigny. SEA-EAGLE. 



Rostrum supra convexum ; 

 ?iare* lunulatae, transverse ; 

 ceroma subhispidum. 



BeaJc convex above ; nostrils 

 lunulated, transverse; ce- 

 roma subhisped. 



