. A dictionary of birds . ew not alittle can be said.^Pandion differs from ^ In the so - called plume - trade the wordis applied to the featherstaken from the back ofcertain Ec4Rets (c/. Exter-mination, p. 228). - Another supjiosed old form of the name is Orfraie ;bttt that is said by M. Rolland {Faunc i^opul. France,ii. p. 9, note) cjuoting M. Suchier (Zeitschr. Emi. p. 432), to arise from a mingling of two wholly different sources:—(1) Ori-2)elargus, Oripcrafjus, Orprais, and (2) Osslfraga. Orfraie again is occasionallyinterchanged with Effraic (which, through such dialectical form
. A dictionary of birds . ew not alittle can be said.^Pandion differs from ^ In the so - called plume - trade the wordis applied to the featherstaken from the back ofcertain Ec4Rets (c/. Exter-mination, p. 228). - Another supjiosed old form of the name is Orfraie ;bttt that is said by M. Rolland {Faunc i^opul. France,ii. p. 9, note) cjuoting M. Suchier (Zeitschr. Emi. p. 432), to arise from a mingling of two wholly different sources:—(1) Ori-2)elargus, Oripcrafjus, Orprais, and (2) Osslfraga. Orfraie again is occasionallyinterchanged with Effraic (which, through such dialectical forms as Fresaie, Fres-saia, is said to come from the Latin jns&saga), the ordinary French name for theBarn-OwI, Aluco flammcus (see Owl, ivfra, p. 679, note 2) ; but the subject istoo complex for any but an expert philologist to treat. According to Prof. Skeat(Etijmol. Did. p. 408), Asprey is the oldest English form ;but Ospreydates from Cotgrave at least. Dr. Sharpe goes further, and makes a SwhoTder Faudmies; but the. OS PREY 661 the Falconidm not only pterylologically, as long ago observed byNitzsch, but also osteologically, as pointed out by M. AlphonseMilne-Edwards {Ois. Foss. France, ii. pp. 413, 419), and it is a curiousfact that in some of the characters in which it differs structurallyfrom the Falconidx, it agrees with certain of the Owls, especially inpossessing a bony bridge or loop {a, in fig.) on the upper part of theanterior face of the tarsometatarse, through which passes thecommon extensor tendon of the toes; ^ and in having the exteriortoe partly reversible; but the most important parts of its internalstructure, as well as of its ptilosis, quite forbid a belief that thereis any near alliance of the two groups. The Osprey is one of the most cosmopolitan Alaska to Brazil, from Lapland to Natal, from Japan toTasmania, and in some of the islands of the Pacific, it occurs as awinter-visitant or as a native. The countries which it does notfrequent w
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