This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
[L. ossifraga ; os, a bone; and frango, to break.] A bird of the family Falconidae, the bald buzzard, fishing-eagle, or fish hawk, a large bird of prey, living upon fish, which it takes by. darting upon them with great rapidity and true aim.
 
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