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WILD NORWAY. 
Lower down the fjord a pair of ospreys had their eyrie 
in a broken cliff, and almost daily paid our river a 
visit, possibly on the look out for a late-lingering kelt, 
though not a single gammle fish remained, to our 
knowledge, in those pellucid streams, a few sea-trout 
kelts alone still hanging about the brackish waters by 
OSPREY. 
(Tana River, June 7, 1884.) 
the river mouth. The graceful, though somewhat 
unstable poise of the osprey is a pretty sight, typical 
of these inner Norwegian fjords; one morning while 
W. played and I gaffed a twelve-pounder in the home 
poo], the fisher-eagle hung overhead the whole time and 
watched the performance with curious eye. Probably 
