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PANBIOK HAXIAETTTS
PANDION HALIAETUS.
Osprey.
Falco haliaetus, Linn. Faun. Suec., p. 22.
piscator, Briss. Orn.j tom. i. p. 361.
arundinaeeus, GiaeL ed. Linn. Syst. Nat., vol. i. p. 263.
Pdndion haliaetus, C u t , Regn. Anim., edit. 1817, tom. i. p . 316.
/tfriflfiViT. Savig. Descr. de l’Egypte, Hist. Nat., tom. i. p. 96.
_ ichthyactus, Kanp, Classif. der Säug, und Vög., p . 122.
—— alticeps Brcbr«. Vög. Doutschl., tom. i. p. 3 3 .
— — planiceps, Br«bm, ib., tab- 2. f i g . 3.
_ .. indicus, Hodg*. Joum. Asiat. Soc. Beng.. 1837, p. 366.
Aquila haliaetus, Meyer, TascheSb. Deutsch. V ö g . , tom. i. p. 23.
___ baUmzardus, Dum. Diet, des Sei. Nat., tom. i. p. 351.
Acäpiter haliaetus, Pall. Zoog. Ross.-Asiat, tom. i. p . 355,
Balbusardus haliaetus, Flem. Hist, of B rit Anim., p. 51. _
Triorehaßmalis, Leach, Syst. Cat. of Indig. Mamm. and Birds in Brat. Mus. p. 10.
W . T — « «he p e r - ' r n t i o : . .0 which t h i s i n t e r e s t i n g bird has been s h e e t e d , e s p e c i a l l y o f la te
rears, a persecution so unrelenting that it has almost amounted to its ext,rpation from the B n
islands, the Osprey still forms a part of their a v i f a u n a , especially of that portion o f them denominated
Scotland, and w i l l ever remain a - . e l a t e d with t h e l i n e loch, and deserted cast es o f that country. At
the head o f that queen of ScottW, lochs, A s s y n t , there still stand, the crumbling castle of A r d i T e c k ;
but no longer does the Osprey come to it in spring, r e a r its young on , t , turrets, and again depart
n the an nmn i no l o n g e r LI the Fmh-hawk circle over that S u e sheet o f w ater; no onger can
, 7, „ r th<. Fishing Eagle hovering over a trout, or witness its.nnerrmg
the t o u r i s t have the ^ l „ r d s theTdghest tower of the line old castle, for the eyry
stoop; no longer been ruthlessly killed about 1860; so says
Mr S u th e rZ l 'th e 'L d l ' - r f the Tourist's Inn. The same remarks apply with equal force to many, if
not to all the other Lochs, the neighbourhood of which was formerly the Osprey’s summer home. °77lL Md L « h Fyne. with its mined castle of Dunderaw, have lost their
summer v i s i t a n t , and t h e i r waters are no longer disturbed by the plunge o f the Leaden E a g l e , a s
it is sometimes termed. How much do I regret to write in this s t r a i n respecting one of the finest
o f o u rT nL T n o u s birds! but change in the destiny of birds as well as o f man appears to be one o
t«rally ask, Well, then, what other countries does the bird inhabit.
«1- for naturalists are divided in opinion as to whether there is
radar form, individual, o f which are so universally distributed over
»herein they are not found. From Europe to the Cape of Good
t ,1 Australia, and in most of the temperate portions of America
« 1 with or nearly allied to our own, are as plentiful as they used to
(e, and ruined buildings, they take np their abode on rocky promon-
rdering the bays and larger inlets of the seas, and in rocky islands in
r e , as witli us,' they construct a large nest in the midst o f a platform
niiifully blotched eggs, hatch and bring up their young, ju s t as they
nature’s laws. My readers may her
rh is is a question not easily ant
one, two, o r -three species o f this ]
the globe th at there arc few count!
Hope, from India to the souther»
north of the line, Osprey*, erther *s
be in Scotland. In the * * *
tories, the giant branches oi ou
the centres o f lakes and lagoon*,
o f sticks and herbage, deposit two
indersb
their southen
more lanccol
The Duke
“ I was mi
I had never i
over the poo
ood that the fombh
■ference to the birn
iorway o r some pai
oa. Such birds an
expressions I have employed respecting the destruction o f the
„ former breeding-haunts in Scotland during the month, of
, seen during autumn in many parts o f Britain, and on most of
, „ortl, to so u th ; but these are probably birds o f llie year which
; o f the Continent, and driven out of their proper
easily recognizable by having the feathers o f the upper surface
and margined all round with white,
dated June 13, 1863, says:—
• Osprey the other day, hawking ov<
rare has it now become in Scotland,
iar ; but the movement or, rather, th<
Dee, m a t Balmoral.
Ovenag, Ki.strel-like,
■Mu of movement was