2 THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 



the century. It still breeds, however, in parts of 

 Scotland, and in the rocky islands of the Hebrides 

 and Shetland. " A full-grown bird was caught near 

 Long Bridy, and lived many years in the aviary at 

 Crichel ; another shot at Morden Park" (Pulteney). 

 One killed at Weymouth in 1857 is in the possession 

 of Mr. Horner, Mells Park, Somerset ; a pair fre- 

 quented the Rempston Woods in i860, one of which 

 was trapped there by the keeper, the other was 

 shot at Lulworth soon afterwards. One was seen at 

 Kimmeridge in the winter of 1880, and after remain- 

 ing there several weeks, left without suffering the 

 usual fate of rare birds. 



OSPEEY. Panclion haliceetus, (L.) 



YarreJl, i. p. 30; Harting, p. 3; Dresser, vi. p. 139; Seebohm, 

 i. p. 55 3 Ibis List, p. 105 ; Falco lialiaeetus, Pulteney's List, 

 p. 2. 



The Osprey is not an unfrequent visitor to the 

 estuaries of Poole and Weymouth, where several 

 have been seen and killed. One frequented the 

 neighbourhood of Weymouth the greater part of the 

 summer of 1881. Another was killed on Rempston 

 Heath the same year ; a third at Weymouth, Sep- 

 tember 20, 1870, whilst being mobbed by a kestrel; 

 a fourth was seen the following day, and escaped ; 

 a fifth, shot at Hyde in 1876, is in Mr. Eadclyffe's 

 collection. There are several records of the occur- 

 rence of the Osprey at Poole and the neighbourhood 

 between 1846 and 1881. Contrary to its usual 



