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DIVISION II. HALIiETUS. 
SUB-DIYISIONS. 
1. Hali^tus. Peop. 
Nails ^roo^'^t/ under- 
neath, as in all the other 
Birds of Prey. 
2 . Pandion, Savigny. 
Balbusaeds, Cuv. ^ • 
Nails round under- 
neath. 
3. Caracai(a. 
Part of the side of the 
head, and sometimes of 
the neck, naked of fea- 
thers. Fig. 32. 
The first Sub-division have the same wings as the Eagles 
Proper, but the tarsi are only covered with feathers on their upper 
half and half-plated on the other. They frequent the borders 
of rivers and the sea-shore^ and live mostly on fish. Falco 
OssifraguSi (Sea Eagle or Osprey, Lath.) Falco Leucocephalus 
(White-headed Eagle, Bald Eagle, Z<^^A.) . 
The Pandions have the beaks and feet of the former, but iheir 
nails are round underneath, whilst in other Birds of Prey they are 
hollowed into a groove ; their tarsi are reticulated, and the second 
feather of their wings is the longest. We know but one species, 
spread through almost the whole of the globe on the banks of 
fresh waters, with few variations in the plumage. 
America produces Fishing Eagles with long wings, like the pre- 
ceding, where a larger or smaller portion of the sides of the head, 
and sometimes of the throat, is naked of feathers. They give them 
the common name of Caracara. Brazilian Rite, Lath, etc 
DIVISION IV. MOBPHNUS. 
SUB-DIVISIONS. 
1. 
Tarsi naked, and 
plated. 
2. . ' ■ . . 
Tarsi covered with 
feathers all the way 
down. 
1. Urubitinga (BraziHan Eagle, Lath). 2. UriUaurana (Crowned 
Eagle, Lath), 
