Falco ossifragus Linnaeus 1766
10. Buffon’s “Orfraie” (full species) 10.1. Linnaeus (1758): not considered. 10.2. Brisson (1759a: 437-440, 1763a: 125-126): “ GRAND AIGLE DE MER ”, “ AQUILA OSSIFRAGA ” , species 9 of genus IX (“Aigle”, “ Aquila ”), order III, section 1. OBSERVATION. — No direct observation. Description mainly borr...
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| Summary: | 10. Buffon’s “Orfraie” (full species) 10.1. Linnaeus (1758): not considered. 10.2. Brisson (1759a: 437-440, 1763a: 125-126): “ GRAND AIGLE DE MER ”, “ AQUILA OSSIFRAGA ” , species 9 of genus IX (“Aigle”, “ Aquila ”), order III, section 1. OBSERVATION. — No direct observation. Description mainly borrowed from Aldrovandi (“ Ossifraga ”). REFERENCES. — Belon (1555: 97-98), “ Ossifragus ”; Gessner (1585: 203), “ Ossifraga ”; Gessner (1585: 542), “ Harpe ”; Aldrovandi (1599: 222-228), “ Ossifraga ”; Aldrovandi (1599: 408), “ Harpa ”; Schwenckfeld (1603: 220), “ Aquila Ossifraga ”, direct observation; Belon (1605: 138), “ Ossifraga ”; Jonston (1657: 5, pl. II, IV, V), based on Aldrovandi; Charleton (1668: 63 no. 8, 1677: 71 no. 8), “ Ossifraga ”, “ Harpa ”; Willughby (1676: 29, pl. 1), “ Haliaetus ”; Sibbald (1684: 14), “ Haliaeetus ” (in a list of Scottish birds); Ray (1713: 7 no. 3), “ Haliaeetus , seu Ossifraga ”; Kolb (1741: 140), “Orfraie ou Ossifrague”; Rzączyński (1745: 363), “ Aquila Ossifraga ”, based on Aldrovandi, Schwenckfeld, etc.; Klein (1750: 41 no. 5), “ Aquila Ossifraga ”, based on Aldrovandi and other sources. DISTRIBUTION. — Europe. MODERN IDENTIFICATION. — Sharpe (1874: 302) and Dresser (1871 -1881: 551) identify Brisson’s “Grand Aigle de mer” with Linnaeus’s “ Falco albicilla ” (1758). Indeed, Brisson’s description, based on textual scholarship only, corresponds to an immature * Haliaeetus albicilla (Linnaeus, 1758) (a bird almost as large as the golden eagle, body brown, whitish and rusty, twelve brown and white rectrices with a black tip, etc.), that is, the same as the “Aigle à queue blanche” and the “Petit Aigle à queue blanche” (see above). However, some of the mentioned sources mix up data borrowed from ancient authors relating to that species and to * Pandion haliaetus (Linnaeus, 1758), or to nearly unidentifiable birds of prey (e.g., Belon’s “ Ossifragus ” and Gessner’s “ Ossifraga ”). Kolb’s “Orfraie ou Ossifrague” from South Africa is not identifiable either; in any case, it is not * ... |
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