. British birds. Birds. mm^ The Home-Life of the Osprey. Photographed and described by Chilton G. Abbott, , Small pp. 54 and 32 Mounted Plates. Witherb^^ & Co. 6s. net. In this, the third volume of Messrs. Witherbys' " Home-Life " series of bird pictures, the domestic affairs of one of our almost extinct birds are depicted. It is sad to think that one must cross the sea to study intimately the life-history of so noble a species as the Osprey, that was once a conspicuous ornament of our own northern lochs. This fact will not, however, detract from the usefulness
. British birds. Birds. mm^ The Home-Life of the Osprey. Photographed and described by Chilton G. Abbott, , Small pp. 54 and 32 Mounted Plates. Witherb^^ & Co. 6s. net. In this, the third volume of Messrs. Witherbys' " Home-Life " series of bird pictures, the domestic affairs of one of our almost extinct birds are depicted. It is sad to think that one must cross the sea to study intimately the life-history of so noble a species as the Osprey, that was once a conspicuous ornament of our own northern lochs. This fact will not, however, detract from the usefulness of the present work, for although the American bird ranks as a separate geogra- phical race from ours, there is no reason to suppose that it differs, apart perhaps from the diversity of nesting-sites chosen, in any of its habits from that of its Old World repre- sentative. Mr. Abbott has accumulated a large number of facts concerning the nesting-habits of the Osprey, and |)resents them in an interesting form, accompanied by a series of plates reproduced from photographs taken by himself and Mr. H. H. Cleaves, which for interest and technical skill will be the envy of all bird-photographers. Both observations and photographs are the result of many visits to the birds' breeding-places on the coasts of N'ew Jersey, Great Lake in N. Carolina, where there is a colony of thirty pairs, and particularly to Gardiner's Island, New York. The latter, 3,000 acres in extent, is, the author points out, an ideal resort for Ospreys, surrounded as it is by waters teeming with fish, while it has remained since 1637 in the ownership of one family who have been the bird's zealous guardians for generations. Even the fishermen who use the island in the course of their labours, take an interest in the birds and do not in the least grudge them the fish they consume. Here, unmolested by human or other enemies, Ospreys to the number of 200 pairs annually resort to rear their young, forming what is proba
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