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OSPREY. 
The Osprey, or Sea-Eagle, (which seems 
j to be the same with the English BaW-Bua- 
[ z “ru,) has been thus described: — from the 
Point of the beak to the end of tile talons, is 
about three feet long; from tip to tip of the 
'rings, nine spans broad ; the bill and the 
tongue are very muchjike the Golden Eagle’s : 
fom the chin hung down small feathers like 
■tin-, mntutmc; a beard, whence by some he 
ts called the Bearded Eagle. 
Ihe Osprey is brown above and white 
bc ° w . the back of the head is white ; the 
outward tail feathers on the inner side are 
treaked with white, and its legs are naked. 
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