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and the figure of the bird here 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 m 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 
