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. Luzon (Worcester, Whitehead); Mindoro (Everett, McGregor, Whitehead); Palawan (Whitehead). Eastern hemisphere. "Adult.--Above brown, most of the feathers with obsolete margins of paler brown, more distinct on the wing-coverts; primaries black, secondaries brown like the back, the primaries pale, but uniform whity brown below, the secondaries whitish on the inner web, with indistinct bars of ashy brown; tail almost uniform brown, tipped with whity brown, and shaded with ashy externally, the inner web obsoletely barred with ashy brown, a little more distinct below, where the interspaces are whitish; head brown, with white bases to the feathers; a broad white streak from behind the eye running down the sides of the neck; ear-coverts blackish brown; sides of neck uniform with the back; sides of face and entire under parts white, the breast varied with brown centers to the feathers of more or less extent, the chin and fore part of cheeks also slightly streaked with dark brown; axillars and a few of the flank-feathers also marked with rufous-brown like the breast; under wing-coverts buffy white, with dark brown centers, the outermost almost entirely brown, with whitish tips. Cere blue; bill black; feet blue; iris yellow. Length, 610; culmen, 44; wing, 503; tail, 241; tarsus, 61. "Young.--Glossy chocolate-brown, all the feathers terminally margined with buffy white, these margins somewhat tinged with rufous, and broadest on the secondary quills and upper tail-coverts; crown of head black, with white or fulvous margins to the feathers, giving a distinctly streaked appearance; nape white, not streaked; from behind the eye a broad line of white runs down the side of the neck, slightly streaked with black; below this another line of black feathers, including the ear-coverts, is conterminous; sides of face and entire under parts pure white, somewhat tinged here and there with yellowish buff; under wing-coverts white, the outer ones strongly washed with tawny-buff, and crossed with broad bars of dark brown; primaries black, secondaries chocolate-brown like the back, and tipped in the same manner, all of them whitish at base of inner web, indistinctly barred with pale brown; tail-feathers alternately barred with dark sepia-brown and ashy brown, tipped with whitish, and having whitish shafts; the bars six in number, and more distinct on the inner web, which is buffy white.