FISH-HAWK, OR OSPREY. 
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frequent attacks which are made upon them, when successful 
in fishing, hy the piratical Bald Eagles, afibrd a spectacle of no 
common interest. I sometimes took notice, that when the 
Fish-Hawk was likely to escape from a single enemy, and had 
wearied his pursuer by the dexterity of his manoeuvres, a fresh 
Eagle joined in the chase, and then all chance of escape was 
hopeless. 
Wilson states, that this species, on the coast of New Jersey, 
commences laying about the first of May; but I observed it 
sitting, in East Florida, on the third of March. The weather 
was then warm: Fahrenheit being at 80° in the shade. — G. Ord. 
