24 OSPREY. 
zerland, and Holland, in Egypt, Tripoli, Nigritia, the Cape of 
Good Hope, Japan, and New Holland, and has been hitherto 
far from unfrequent in England, most numerous at either 
extremity of the country, namely, in Sutherlandshire and 
Devonshire. Specimens have been killed in Berkshire, at Don- 
nington and at Pangbourne, the latter one in the year 1810, 
in the month of January. Three in Oxfordshire, one of them 
at Nuneham Park, the seat of George Harcourt, Esq.: and 
one at Udimore, in Sussex, by the keeper of F. Langford, 
Esq. in November, 1848. Others in Shropshire, Somersetshire, 
and Hertfordshire. One is mentioned by the Rev. Gilbert 
White, in his ‘Natural History of Selborne,’ as having been 
killed at Frinsham Pond, in Hampshire. 
It has been frequently observed at Killarney, in Ireland, 
and no doubt occurs in many other parts of the sister island. 
It has been in the habit of building regularly in many parts 
of Scotland, on Loch Awe, Loch Lomond, Loch Assynt, Seowrie, 
Loch Maddie, near Durness, and MRhiconnich, in short, on 
many, or most of the Highland Lochs; also at Killechurn Castle, 
and is said to breed in the Orkney Islands, Killarney, and near 
the Lizard Point. It has frequently been seen on and near 
Dartmoor, in Devonshire: two were procured in that locality 
in the month of May, in the year 1831, at Estover; one in 
the same year at another place in the same county, and two 
on the Avon. Three or four have been met with in the 
county of Durham—one seen near Hartlepool—others in Sussex 
—one in Hampshire, in Christchurch bay, where, Mr. Yarrell 
says, this bird is called the Mullet Hawk, a name far from 
unlikely to be appropriate, for these fish are remarkably fond 
of basking near the surface of the water, so that they may 
easily be killed with stones. In Yorkshire numerous specimens 
have been at various times procured; so many that I need 
not here more particulary enumerate them. ‘There is no record 
of the Osprey having been seen in the Hebrides. 
The Osprey being so strictly a piscivorous bird, is only met 
with in the immediate neighbourhood of water; but salt and 
fresh water fish are equally acceptable to it—bays and the 
borders of the sea, as well as the most inland lakes, rivers, 
and preserves, are its favourite resort: when young, it may 
even, it is stated, be trained to catch fish. . 
Temminck and Wilson state that the Osprey migrates in 
the winter. In Scotland, it is said to arrive in Sutherlandshire 
in the spring, but on the other hand the specimens which 
