The Fish Hawk colony on Palmer River 
number about forty nests. After visiting 
nearly half of them I got a set of four 
from the same nest which yielded a like 
number in ’82. 
I have ascended to their nests in July 
and found three nearly fledged young sit- 
ting on an extended platform of sticks, and 
also three eggs in the nest proper. 
That the Osprey repairs or adds to his 
nest in autumn is a fact, one pair building 
a nest in the month of September on a 
crotch higher up on the same tree with the 
old nest, to avoid the persecution of boys. 
They occupied this nest the next spring, 
but unfortunately they had trusted their 
hopes to a slender foundation, and a sum- 
mer gale hurled it to the ground with two 
young. They repaired the old nest before 
leaving in the fall, and this spring’s return 
brought the same pair to their old home — 
; F. II c. 
IX . /tr*/. 
. captores, Bristol County, Mass. 
Hilton B. Read. * 
Osprey, (Pandion haliaetus carolinensis) . An 
abundant summer visitor. Breeds in the south- 
ern portions of this county, there being in the 
vicinity of Palmer's river quite a colony of 
them, occupying the adjoining swamps, though 
many of them build near the houses. 
They arrive here about the last of March and 
resort to their old nests. By the tenth of May 
they have laid their full set of eggs, which 
usually consists of three, thought sometimes 
two, and in a few rare instances four are found. 
Their eggs are handsome and, (as is the case 
with all colored eggs), vary in appearance, 
from deep chocolate and umber, to a light 
brown and dirty grey. 
As they use the same nest for successive 
seasons, adding to it every year, it forms a 
conspicuous feature in the landscape after the 
foliage has disappeared. 
O.&O. XII. Aug. 1887 p.118 
New Eng. Raptores. Number Eggsin 
as«t. F. H. Carpenter. 
Ospi ey , ( Pandion huliaetus carolinensis ') , 
7 sets of 1 
47 “ 2 
236 “ “ 3 
4 “ “4 
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