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represented with a grey mullet under his foot. The 

 Rev. Gilbert White, in his Natural History of Selborne, 

 has also mentioned one that was killed at Frinsham Pond, 

 a large piece of water about six miles from Selborne. 

 This bird was shot while sitting on the handle of a 

 plough devouring a fish it had caught. Montagu con- 

 sidered that the Osprey was frequent in Devonshire. 

 Dr. Edward Moore, in his Birds of Devonshire, mentions 

 five or six recent instances of its occurrence ; and Mr. 

 Couch sends me word that this species is believed to 

 breed every year on the rocks about the Lizard. Of 

 the more inland counties, specimens have been killed in 

 Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, and Shropshire. In Ireland, 

 the Osprey has been seen by several naturalists about the 

 Lake of Killarney. 



It has been already observed that the Osprey is com- 

 mon in North America, where it has an extensive range. 

 Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, says that it is found in 

 Siberia and Kampschatka. In high northern latitudes it 

 is migratory, retiring before the appearance of frost. It 

 inhabits Scandinavia, and Russia. In Europe, south 

 of Russia, it is found in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, 

 and the southern provinces : it is found in Sicily, Corfu, 

 and Crete or Candia as it is now called, and in Tripoli 

 and Egypt. M. Temminck, in the third part of his 

 Manual, says that specimens of the Osprey from the 

 Cape of Good Hope, and others from Japan, are simi- 

 lar to those killed in Europe ; Mr Blyth has found it 

 in India, and Sir William Jardine possesses one from 

 New Holland which is in no way different. The geo- 

 graphical range of this species is therefore most exten- 

 sive. 



The Osprey measures about twenty-two inches in length. 

 The beak is black, the cere blue, the irides yellow ; the 



