Osprey 



LETTER XXXIX. 1 



To the same. 



SELBORNE, Nov. <)tt>, 1773. 



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 



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



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

 as material for his " British Zoology," and were used by him on the various pages 

 referred to below. ED. 







