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OSPREY. 
FISHING HAWK. 
PLATE VI. 
Pandion haliaétus, i : : SAVIGNY. 
Falco haliaétus, F . é . Berwick. 
Balbusardus haliaétus. . : P FLEMING. 
Aquila haliaétus, . ¢ 3 . JENYNS. 
Ir the lone tower whose time-worn remains still abut 
on the edge of the solitary islet of the mountain lake, 
or hang over the gorge of some precipitous ravine, 
could now ‘a tale unfold,” many is the startling 
legend it would tell—many a deed of blood; of 
bravery, or of treachery; of honour or of shame. Now 
the Osprey it its sole tenant. The eagle eye of the 
Highland chieftain long since saw at a glance where 
the soul that looked through it could best suit its plans, 
and thither a kindred purpose guides the bird of prey. 
Any forsaken building, too, if remote from human 
visitation, answers its motive as well, and is accordingly 
resorted to. 
But not only has many an ancient fortress mouldered 
into dust, since the tenancy of the Osprey’s lease, which 
dated perhaps from the time that it was first left to 
go to ruin, was thus run out, and has left the bird to 
seek a home elsewhere,— 
“And down the lone vale sail away 
To more profound repose,” 
