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THE OSPREY. 



Pandion haliaetus. SAVIGNY. 

 PLATE XIV. 



Falco haliaeetus, Linn. tyc. Aigle balbusard, Temm. 



Balbusardus haliaeetus, Fleming Osprey of 



British ornithologists. Fish Hawk, Wilson. 



THE wilder character of the northern parts of 

 our island, thickly studded with lochs and rivers 

 abounding with fish, is much more consonant 

 with the habits of the Osprey than the cultivated 

 margins of the southern streams : consequently 

 we find it a rare bird south of the Forth, the 

 individuals which are seen or captured there 

 being stragglers or occasional visitants at a dis- 

 tance from their native haunts. 



They are recorded as being occasionally seen 

 in Devonshire, and other parts of the south of 

 England, by Colonel Montague and other writers. 

 Tracing them northwards, we have little indication 

 of their appearance about the " English lakes ; " 

 and the bird is not mentioned in Dr Heysham's 

 catalogue of the animals of Cumberland. Upon 

 the Tweed, they seem to appear oeriodically, 



