. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . hire, has a tame GoldenEagle which is occasionally allowed its liberty, and,as I have seen, comes to a lure like a trained falcon. Eagles are not subject to much variation ofplumage, except that which is dependent upon albino Sea-Eagle, however, was killed at Achin-duich, in the parish of Lairg, in November 1857. OSPREY. Pandion haliaetus (Linnaeus). PI. 1, figs. 4, , 24 in.; wing, 19-5 in.; tarsus, 2-5 in. S
. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . hire, has a tame GoldenEagle which is occasionally allowed its liberty, and,as I have seen, comes to a lure like a trained falcon. Eagles are not subject to much variation ofplumage, except that which is dependent upon albino Sea-Eagle, however, was killed at Achin-duich, in the parish of Lairg, in November 1857. OSPREY. Pandion haliaetus (Linnaeus). PI. 1, figs. 4, , 24 in.; wing, 19-5 in.; tarsus, 2-5 in. Still breeds in Scotland, where it is a summermigrant; visits England in spring and autumn, andis occasionally met with in Ireland in autumn. According to Willughby (Ornithology, 1678,p. 21), the Osprey used to nest in Westmorland. Hewrites: There is an aery of them in Whinfield Park,preserved carefully by the Countess of account, for reasons stated, is accepted byMacpherson (Zool 1889, p. 256, 1892, p. 75; andFauna of Lakeland, p. 214), but Professor New-ton and Mr. A. G. More (Zool. 1892) have expressedthe opinion that the nest was probably that of a. o OSPREY 7 White - tailed Eagle. The Osprey still breeds atLoch-an-Eilan, Rothiemurcus, Inverness-shire, whereit is protected by Sir P. Grant; also at Glencarwick,in the same county, and at Lochluichart in Ross-shire, where the keepers of Lady Ashburton havestrict orders to see that the birds are not 1891 a pair nested at Loch Morlich, a few milesfrom Loch-an-Eilan. A view of Ardvrack Castle,on Loch Assynt, Sutherland, the old site of an Os-preys nest, is given in the Fauna of Sutherlandand Caithness, p. 177. In June 1893 the Zoological Society awardedtwo silver medals for the protection of the Ospreyin Scotland : one to Donald Cameron of Lochiel, theother, intended for Sir J. Grant of Rothiemurcus(then lately deceased), to Strachey, onbehalf of the relatives. Respecting the identity of the A
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