. A dictionary of birds . little can be said.^Fandioii differs from ^ In the so - called j^ilunie - trade the wordis applied to the featherstaken from the back ofcertain Egrets {cf. Extek-MINATION, p. 228), ^ Another supposed old form of the name is Orfraie ;but that is said by M. Rolland [Faime 2Mpul. France,ii. p. 9, note) quoting M. Suchier {Zeitschr. Jiom. p. 432), to arise from a mingling of two wliolly different soiuces:—(1) Ori-pelargus, Ori2)erag\is, Orprais, and (2) Ossifraga. Orfraie again is occasionallyinterchanged with Effraie (wliich, tlirough such dialectical forms
. A dictionary of birds . little can be said.^Fandioii differs from ^ In the so - called j^ilunie - trade the wordis applied to the featherstaken from the back ofcertain Egrets {cf. Extek-MINATION, p. 228), ^ Another supposed old form of the name is Orfraie ;but that is said by M. Rolland [Faime 2Mpul. France,ii. p. 9, note) quoting M. Suchier {Zeitschr. Jiom. p. 432), to arise from a mingling of two wliolly different soiuces:—(1) Ori-pelargus, Ori2)erag\is, Orprais, and (2) Ossifraga. Orfraie again is occasionallyinterchanged with Effraie (wliich, tlirough such dialectical forms Frcsaie, Fres-saia, is said to come from the Latin prsesaga), the ordinary French name for theBarn-Owl, Aluco flammeus (see Owl, infra, p. 679, note 2) ; but the subject istoo complex for any but an expert philologist to treat. According to Prof. Skeat[Etymol. Did. p. 408), Asprey is the oldest English form; but Os2:)reydates from Cotgrave at least. ^ Dr. Sharpe goes further, and makes a SuborderJ«//(?;o?(cs ; but the. Bones of , taisometatarsal bridge over the ex-teusor of the toes ; h, tibialbridge over the same. 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 Falconidss, 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
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