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FALCONING. PERNIS. 
crown dark brown ; a broad band of blackish-brown, on the 
cheeks and neck ; the lower parts white, the neck streaked 
with brown. Young with the feathers of the upper parts I 
deep brown, terminally margined with reddish-white. I 
Male, 24, 64, 20, li|, 2^ 1^^, Female, 26, 68. | 
Generally dispersed in England and Scotland, but rare, 
and apparently migratory. Breeds on some of the Scottish ! 
lakes, as Loch Lomond and Loch Awe. Feeds exclusively 
on fishes, which it captures by plunging after them on their j 
approaching the surface. Its flight is sedate, buoyant, and | 
graceful, and it hovers over the water with an undulatory ; 
motion of the wings. The nest, which is bulky, is placed on 
a rock, old building, or tree ; and the eggs, three or four in 
number, are roundish, white, with large patches of brown, i 
2-4_ long, broad. The intestine of a male examined by 
me was eleven feet 3 inches long, its widest part across, 
the narrowest y\. The oesophagus and stomach being 11 J | 
inches, the whole length of the alimentary canal was 12 feet, I 
2j inches. 
Fishing Eagle. Fish Hawk. Bald Buzzard. 
Falco Halisetus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 129. — Falco Halisetus, I 
Temm. Man. d’Ornith. i. 47 ; ii. 25. — Pandion Haliaetus, 
Fishing Osprey, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iii. 239. 
GENUS VI. PERNIS. BEE-HAWK. 
Bill shorter than the head, somewhat broader than high 
at the base, compressed toward the end, strong ; upper man- 
dible decurved from the base, with the sides convex, the 
edges with a very slight festoon, the tip descending, slender, 
acute ; lower mandible with the angle of moderate length, 
broad, and rounded, the dorsal line convex, the tip rounded. 
Mouth rather wide ; tongue short, with the base concave and 
papilHte, the upper surface deeply concave, the sides nearly 
parallel, the tip rounded but emarginate ; oesophagus very 
wide, dilated into a very large crop ; proventriculus wide ; 
stomach large, roundish, its muscular coat very thin ; intes- 
tine of moderate length, rather wide ; no coeca ; cloaca ellip- 
tical, very large. Nostrils linear-oblong, oblique. Eyes rather 
large ; eyelids destitute of ciliary bristles : the supraocular 
ridge small. Aperture of ear large, transversely elliptical. 
Head ovate, flattened above, of moderate size ; neck rathe? 
short ; body rather elongated, moderately fuU. Legs short, 
