142 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
were in spring—in Mid Cheshire, where the well-stocked 
meres offer an attraction to this piscivorous species. 
About the end of April 1865, an Osprey frequented 
Rostherne Mere for several days, and was seen to cap- 
ture fish and convey them to a solitary tree on the 
margin of the mere in order to devour them. By 
lying in wait, one of the gamekeepers shot the bird, 
which proved to be an adult, in the act of eating a 
two-pound bream.! Mr. H. Harrison, into whose pos- 
session it subsequently came, exhibited the bird at a 
meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical 
Society on May 15th, 1865. The specimen is now pre- 
served in the Warrington Museum. 
A second Osprey was shot by Mr. Hatton, Lord 
Delamere’s head-keeper, on or about May 20th, 1890, 
at Petty Pool in Vale Royal.? 
In the winter of 1893-94, two Ospreys were observed 
for some days by Mr. J. Kenyon, head-keeper to the Earl 
of Egerton, who saw them take fish on several occasions 
from Tatton Mere. One of these birds was shot by an 
under-keeper, but it dropped in a thick wood and was 
not recovered. 
1 Zoologist, ser. 11. vol. i. p. 30. 1866. 
? Dobie, op. cit. p. 317. 
