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zerland, and Holland, in Egypt, Tripoli, Nigritia, the Cape of 

 Good Hope, Japan, and New Holland, and has been hitherto 

 far from unfrequent in England, most numerous at either 

 extremity of the country, namely in Sutherlandshire and 

 Devonshire. Specimens have been killed in Berkshire, at Don- 

 nington and at Pangbourne, the latter one in the year 1810, 

 in the month of January. Three in Oxfordshire, one of them 

 at Nunehara Park, the seat of George Harcourt, Esq.; and 

 one at Udiniore, in Sussex, by the keeper of E. Langford, 

 Esq. in November, 1848. Others in Shropshire, Somersetshire, 

 and Hertfordshire. One is mentioned by the Rev. Gilbert 

 White, in his 'Natural History of Selborne,' as having been 

 killed at Erinsham Pond, in Hampshire. 



It has been frequently observed at Killarney, in Ireland, 

 and no doubt occurs in many other parts of the sister island. 



It has been in the habit of building regularly in many parts 

 of Scotland, on Loch Awe, Loch Lomond, Loch Assynt, Scowrie, 

 Loch Maddie, near Durness, and Rhiconnich, in short, on 

 many, or most of the Highland Lochs; also at Killehurn Castle, 

 and is said to breed in the Orkney Islands, Killarney, and near 

 the Lizard Point. It has frequently been seen on and near 

 Dartmoor, in Devonshire: two were procured in that locality 

 in the month of May, in the year 1831, at Estover; one in 

 the same year at another place in the same county, and two 

 on the Avon. Three or four have been met with in the 

 county of Durham one seen near Hartlepool others in Sussex 

 one in Hampshire, in Christchurch bay, where, Mr. Yarrell 

 says, this bird is called the Mullet Hawk, a name far from 

 unlikely to be appropriate, for these fish are remarkably fond 

 of basking near the surface of the water, so that they may 

 easily be killed with stones. In Yorkshire numerous specimens 

 have been at various times procured; so many that I need 

 not here more particularly enumerate them. There is no record 

 of the Osprey having been seen in the Hebrides. 



The Osprey being so strictly a piscivorous bird, is only met 

 with in the immediate neighbourhood of water; but salt and 

 fresh water fish are equally acceptable to it bays and the 

 borders of the sea, as well as the most inland lakes, rivers, 

 and preserves, are its favourite resort: when young, it may 

 even, it is stated, be trained to catch fish. 



Temminck and Wilson state that the Osprey migrates in 

 the winter. In Scotland, it is said to arrive in Sutherlandshire 

 in the spring, but on the other hand the specimens which 



