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the greatest attention to its mate and home, and displaying a constancy 
which is not to be surpassed by that of the turtle-dove, so celebrated for 
matrimonial felicity. 
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OSPREY. —(Pandion haliactus.) 
The flight of the Osprey is peculiarly easy and elegant, as might be 
expected from a bird the length of whose body is only twenty-two inches 
and the expanse of wing nearly five feet and a half. Living almost wholly 
on fish, the Osprey sails in wide undulating circles, hovering over the water 
and intently watching for its prey. No sooner does a fish come into view 
than the Osprey shoots through the air like a meteor, descends upon the 
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