A C C 1 P I T R E S. 
Suborder PANDIONES. 
Differs structurally from Falcones in having the outer toe reversible. Plumage very close 
and compact, otherwise as in Falcones. 
Genus PANDION. 
Tip of upper mandible much lengthened, curved at right angles to the commissuie and very 
acute ; lobe variable in development. Wings long and pointed, exceeding the tail ; the old quill 
generally the longest. Tail of 12 feathers and even. Tarsi short, stout, reticulated, as are also 
the toes to the last joint. Soles of the feet prickly, and the claws rounded beneath , much curved ; 
outer toe reversible. Feathers wanting the accessory plumule. 
PANDION HALIAETUS. 
(THE OSPREY.) 
Falco haliaetus, Linn. S. N. p. 129 (1766). 
Pandion fluvialis , Sav. Descr. Egypte, Ois. p. 272 (1809). 
Aquila haliaetus, Meyer in Mey. u. Wolf, Tasch. i. p. 23 (1810). 
Accijdter haliaetus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 355 (1811). 
Balbusardus haliaetus, Flem. Brit. An. p. 51 (1828). 
Pandion haliaetus, Less. Man. d’Orn. i. p. 86 (1828) ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 12 (1837) ; Gray, 
Gen. B. i. p. 17, pi. 7. fig. 5 (1845); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 29 (1849); Bp. 
Consp. i. p. 16 (1850); Schleg. Vog. Nederl. pi. 30 (1854); Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. 
Mus. E. I. Co. p. 52 (1854); Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 80 (1862); More, Ibis, 1865, p. 9 ; 
Tristram, Ibis, 1865, p. 253; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 231 (1869); Gould, B. ot Gt.. 
Brit. pt. xvii.( 1870); Newton, ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 30 (1871); Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 
1872, p. 412 ; Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 203 (1872) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 449 (1874) ; 
Dresser, B. of Eur. pt. 49 (1876). 
Pandion alticeps, Brehm, Yog. Deutschl. p. 33 (1831). 
Pandion carolinensis, Audub. B. N. Am. pi. 81, et Orn. Biogr. i. p. 415 (1831). 
Pandion indicus, Ilodgs. in Gray’s Zool. Miscel. p. 81 (1844). 
The Fishing-Hawk , Catesby, N. IT. Carol, i. pi. 2 (1731). 
Le Faucon pescheur de la Caroline, Briss. Orn. i. p. 362 (1790), also Aigle de Mer, Briss. ibid, 
p. 440. 
Le Balbuzard, Buff 1 . PI. Enl. i. pi. 414. 
“ Fish-Hawk ,” popularly, America and England; Fischaar, Fischhabicht, German; iisch- 
