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one of our fraternity, — a catcher offish. She 

 has missed her quarry this time, and has 

 soared further down towards the river, to fall 

 again from a great height. There ! You see 

 her rise with a fish in her talons. 



PoiET. — She gives an interest to this 

 scene, which I hardly expected to have found. 

 Pray are there many of these animals in this 

 country ? 



Hal. — Of this species, I have seen but 

 these two, and I believe the young ones mi- 

 grate as soon as they can provide for them- 

 selves ; for this solitary bird requires a large 

 space to move and feed in, and does not allow 

 its offspring to partake its reign, or to live near 

 it. Of other species of the eagle, there are 

 some in different parts of the mountains, par- 

 ticularly of the Osprey, and of the great fish- 

 ing or brown eagle. I once saw a very fine 

 and interesting sight above one of the Crags of 

 Ben Weevis, near Strathgarve, as I was going, 

 on the 20th of August, in pursuit of black 

 game. Tw^o parent eagles were teaching their 

 offspring — two young birds — the manoeuvres 

 of flight. They began by rising from the top 

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