PANDION HALIAETUS : OSPREY ! FISH HAWK. 



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Merriam, " that Fish Hawks do not breed so far up the 

 Connecticut River as Middletown and Portland, but are 

 common at its mouth (about Saybrook), and that he 

 has taken their nests, along the Sound, all the way from 



Fig. 25. — Fish Hawk. 



Saybrook to New London. Immense numbers of them 

 breed regularly at Plumb Island, Conn., where I saw, 

 last Spring, at least five hundred nests, and over a 

 thousand birds. There is only one small piece of timber 

 on the island, and every tree contains a Fish-Hawk's 

 nest, or from eight to ten Night Herons' nests. There 



