THE OSPREY, VOL. 5

An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Popular Ornithology, September, 1900, to December, 1901 (Inclusive)Whatever the fish taken, the bird treats it in the same manner. It is a curious fact, it has been thought. That it will never carry the fish with the tail to the front. Wilson early oh served that the fish was always carried head foremost. Mr. Charles S. Shick watched it often in Cape May County, (n. Where it is very common, and many times saw it turn the fish around in mid air so as to carry it with head advanced. It would be desirable to have such a change of position in mid air con firmed by others. Meves wrote to Dresser that, in northern Russia he saw an Osprey flying from Lake Ladoga to a neighbouring wood with a fish in his claws. It held the fish by its head, and the whole of the hinder part stuck up in the air, higher than the bird s back, looking like a flag.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.