Osprey 



LETTER XXXIX.i 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, Nov. <)(h, 1773. 



EAR SIR, As you desire me to send you 

 such observations as may occur, I take the 

 liberty of making the following remarks, 

 that you may, according as you think me 

 right or wrong, admit or reject what I here 



_ advance, in your intended new edition of the 



" British Zoology." 



The osprey * was shot about a year ago at Frinsham 

 [Frensham] Pond, a great lake, at about six miles from 

 hence, while it was sitting on the handle of a plough and 

 devouring a fish : it used to precipitate itself into the water, 

 and so take its prey by surprise. 



* " British Zoology," vol. i. p. 128. 



1 This and the following letter were evidently written at Pennant's re- 

 quest as material for his " British Zoology," and were used by him on 

 the vajious pages referred to below. ED. 



