FISH-HAWK, OR OSPREY. 79 



frequent attacks which are made upon them, when successful 

 in fishing, by the piratical Bald Eagles, afford a spectacle of no 

 common interest. I sometimes took notice, that when the 

 Fish-Hawk was likely to escape from a single enemy, and had 

 wearied his pursuer by the dexterity of his manoeuvres, a fresh 

 Eagle joined in the chase, and then all chance of escape was 

 hopeless. 



Wilson states, that this species, on the coast of New Jersey, 

 commences laying about the first of May; but I observed it 

 sitting, in East Florida, on the third of March. The weather 

 was then warm: Fahrenheit being at 80 in the shade. G. Ord. 



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