. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. THE OSPREV. blinking of its beautifuleyes (which are alwayswide open) at long mter-vals, and it is perfectlyheedless of the move-ments of the other birdscaged with it. Here to-day and gone to-morrow \fSt may be well applied to some of the fresh arrivals at the Zoo. The Osprey shown was a very fine specimen caught at sea, and had on arrival a plumage scarcely THE CAPE HUNTING DOG. Hearing of its arrival I hastened to obtaina picture, having had a hint that theynever live long here. True enough thepoor bird in a very
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. THE OSPREV. blinking of its beautifuleyes (which are alwayswide open) at long mter-vals, and it is perfectlyheedless of the move-ments of the other birdscaged with it. Here to-day and gone to-morrow \fSt may be well applied to some of the fresh arrivals at the Zoo. The Osprey shown was a very fine specimen caught at sea, and had on arrival a plumage scarcely THE CAPE HUNTING DOG. Hearing of its arrival I hastened to obtaina picture, having had a hint that theynever live long here. True enough thepoor bird in a very few days becamealmost unrecognisable as the beautifulbird shown. The Osprey used formerlyto breed in the British Isles, chiefly inScotland, by the shores of wooded moun-tain lakes, where it fishes by descendingfrom great heights above the water andprecipitating itself, and seizing with its clawsthe fish it has observed on the mode of living has given it the nameof the Fishing Hawk.
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