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1 Specimen from near Largo, Fifeshire. 

 3 „ south of the Pentlands: other 2 observed. 



1 „ near Haddington, Haddingtonshire. 



1 ,, Coldingham, Berwickshire. 



1 „ Stow, Mid-Lothian. 



2 „ near Stow, do. 



1 „ Bahnaghi, Kirkcudbrightshire. 



2 „ near Newton-Stewart, Wigtonshire. 

 1 „ Langholm, Dumfriesshire. 



1 „ Balthayock, Perthshire. 



1 „ Newtyle, Forfarshire. 



2 „ Strathmore, do. 



1 „ near Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire. 



1 „ near Kelso, Roxburghshire. 



2 „ Selkirkshire. 



Many more are reported ; but we give only those which, without 

 doubt, are specimens of the Rough-legged species, as some mistakes 

 have occurred by persons confusing this bird with the Common 

 Buzzard (Buteo vulgaris), of which specimens have also been more 

 numerous than usual this season. The bird-stuffers in Glasgow 

 have received several during the last few weeks. No fewer than 

 six were sent in from one gamekeeper in Mull, in the beginning 

 of February. Those birds were all fine dark specimens, with 

 the darker feathers under the wings of a bright chestnut. On the 

 Dumbartonshire hills, too, there were an unusual number of 

 Buzzards seen, although, fortunately, there are not many captures 

 recorded from this district. 



The Rough-legged Buzzard may, when on the wing, be dis- 

 tinguished from the common species, by the dark band below the 

 wings, which is more marked in immature than in adult birds. 

 But the latter are very rare in this country. All the specimens 

 which have come under my notice during the present flight have 

 been immature birds, some of them having the dark band very 

 distinctly marked. 



The food of the Rough-legged Buzzards in this country seems 

 to have been almost entirely rabbits. The stomachs of nearly all 

 the specimens preserved in Glasgow contained rabbit fur and 

 small bones, sometimes mixed with bits of grass, picked up most 

 likely when tearing their prey on the ground. 



The Rough-legged Buzzard is a native of the northern parts of 



