158 THE BIRDS OF BERKS AND BUCKS. 



chain to indicate that he had ever been in captivity. 

 His skin has been well preserved in a well-chosen 

 attitude.' * 



Another Cinereous Eagle in immature plumage 

 was shot by one of the royal keepers in Windsor 

 Great Park in the summer of 1865. 



About the same time, another bird of this species 

 was seen by the keepers about the park. It was 

 slightly wounded and captured, and is alive at the 

 present time (1867), under the care of Mr. Cole at the 

 Sandpit Gate in the park. 



OSPREY (Pandion haliceetus). Local name, Fish- 

 hawk. Like the last-named, an accidental visitant 

 The Rev. F. O. Morris records the appearance of 

 this species at Donnington, in Berkshire ; and it has 

 been observed also at Pangbourne in the same 

 county more than once. 



In February, 1845, an Osprey was killed at 

 Chequers, in Buckinghamshire. This bird is now in 

 the collection of Lady Frankland Russell. 



I am indebted to Mr. Crewe for the notice of a 

 third specimen of the Osprey, which was obtained 

 on the banks of the canal at Halton, during the year 

 1854. It was shot by a labouring man whilst de- 

 vouring a dead pigeon which had been thrown on 

 to the towing-path from a neighbouring dovecot. 

 This bird is in the possession of Sir Anthony de 

 Rothschild, Bart., of Aston-Clinton. 



* Buckland's ' Curiosities of Natural History, ' vol. i. 



