Ossifrage] Some take the Ossifrage to be a Griffin, which is a bird of an Eagles kind, but bigger then an ordinary Eagle, and is very strong and ravenous, having a very crooked beake and talons, whereby it is able to take up the lesser sort of living creatures, and by dashing them downe to breake their bones; for which cause it is called an Ossifrage, which signifieth a bone-breaker: and not onely so, but, as some report, some of the Eagles kind are found so great and strong, that they can carry a whole Oxe or horse at once to their neast, to feed their young; yea and take up an Elephant into the aire, and when they have killed him, by letting him fall to the earth, they devoure him. Ospray] Some take the Ospray for the same thing with the Ossifrage; as if it were a changing of the word Osbreake into Ospray. The name of it in Greeke, signifieth a Sea-Eagle, which is a bird of great bignesse, and of sharpe sight, whereby discerning the pry in the water, he suddenly striketh at it and seiseth on it, Plin. lib. 10. ch. 3.