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and the figure of the bird liere given is 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 considered 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 Shrop- 

 shire. In Ireland, the Osprey has been seen by several 

 naturalists about the Lake of Killarney. 



It has been already observed that the Osprey is common 

 in North America, where it has an extensive range. Pen- 

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

 Siberia and Kamtschatka. 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 similar 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 geographical range of this 

 species is therefore most extensive. 



The Osprey measures about twenty-two inches in length. 

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



