By Stream and Pond. 



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have increased in numbers and have become very familiar and fearless. 

 They breed in the vicinity of houses, even in door yards when the trees 

 afford support for their great nests, and return year after year to the same 

 nesting site. This is in obvious contrast to the account of W. H. Hudson, 

 Esq., at page 215 in his book on British Birds. Speaking of the gradual 

 extinction in Great Britain of this once common bird, he says : " With us 

 it appears in autumn as a migrant in small numbers ; but the birds of the 

 British race are now reduced to one or tiuo pairs that breed annually in the 

 Highlands of Scotland, and are strictly protected in their summer haunts." 



OSPREY OR FISH HAWK. 



This harmless and magnificent bird is so fine an adjunct to any sea- 

 shore, is of so great interest to all when at rest near its nest, or when diving 



