A Manual of Philippine Birds

by Richard C. McGregor

Characters same as those given for the Suborder.

Genera.

• a¹. Smaller; front of tarsus covered with small imbricated scales. Pandion (p. [245])
• a². Larger; part of tarsus covered with large transverse plates. Polioaëtus (p. [247])

Genus PANDION Savigny, 1809.

Bill slightly compressed; width of upper mandible at nostril more than its depth; primaries abruptly and deeply cut on inner web and exceeding secondaries by more than length of tarsus; back of tarsus covered with small scales like those in front.

Species.

• a¹. Much larger; wing, about 500 mm. haliætus (p. [245])
• a². Much smaller; wing, 460 mm. or less. leucocephalus (p. [246])

203. PANDION HALIÆTUS (Linnæus).

EUROPEAN OSPREY.

• Falco haliætus Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 91.
• Pandion haliaëtus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 449; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 315; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 45.