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THE OSPREY. 
Pandion haliaetus. — Savigny. 
PLATE XIV. 
Falco haliasetus, Linn. Sfe Aigle balbusard, Terr.m. 
— Balbusardus haliaeetus, Fleming. — Osprey of 
British ornithologists Fish Hawk, Wilson. 
The wilder character of the northern parts of 
our island, thickly studded with lochs and rivers 
abounding with fish, is much more consonant 
with the habits of the Osprey than the cultivated 
margins of the southern streams : consequently 
we find it a rare bird south of the Forth, the 
individuals which are seen or captured there 
being stragglers or occasional visitants at a dis- 
tance from their native haunts. 
They are recorded as being occasionally seen 
in Devonshire, and other parts of the south of 
England, by Colonel Montague and other writers. 
Tracing them northwards, we have little indication 
of their appearance about the “ English lakes ; ” 
and the bird is not mentioned in Dr Heysham’s 
catalogue of the animals of Cumberland. Upon 
the Tweed, they seem to appear oeriodically. 
