. The birds of South Africa. Birds. 400 PANDIONIDS! PANDION scales; toes with a few scutes immediately above the claws with roughened and prickly pads below ; the outer toe reversible at will; claws very long, curved and sharp, rounded beneath. Only one, almost cosmopolitan, species of Osprey is generally recognised, though recently modern writers have divided this wide- ranging form into three geographical races at least. 562. Pandion haliaetus. Osprey. Falco haliaetus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, p. 129 (1766). Pandion haliaetus, Ourney, Ibis, 1859, p. 239 [Natal]; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 16 (1867); S
. The birds of South Africa. Birds. 400 PANDIONIDS! PANDION scales; toes with a few scutes immediately above the claws with roughened and prickly pads below ; the outer toe reversible at will; claws very long, curved and sharp, rounded beneath. Only one, almost cosmopolitan, species of Osprey is generally recognised, though recently modern writers have divided this wide- ranging form into three geographical races at least. 562. Pandion haliaetus. Osprey. Falco haliaetus, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, p. 129 (1766). Pandion haliaetus, Ourney, Ibis, 1859, p. 239 [Natal]; Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 16 (1867); Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 449 (1874); Sharpe, ed. Layard'sB. 8. Afr. pp. 68, 801 (1875-84); Dresser, B. Eur. \i, p. 139, pis. 386, 887 (1876); Gurney, Ibis, 1882, p. 204 ; Butler, Feilden, and Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 204 [near Durban]; 8helley, B. Afr. i, p. 144 (1896); Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 153 (1899); Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 607 (1901).. Pig. 140.—Pandion halia'Mus. x T°n- Description. Adult female.—Above sepia-brown, most of the feathers edged and tipped with whity-brown; head brown with white bases and edges to the feathers so as to give a mottled appear- ance ; a broad white streak from behind the eye running down the sides of the neck ; primary quills black ; tail almost uniform brown tipped with whity-browh, the outer feathers more or less barred. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stark, Arthur Cowell, d. 1899; Sclater, William Lutley, 1863-1944; Sclater, William Lutley, 1863-1944. Fauna of South Africa. London, R. H. Porter
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