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protect it in the breeding season. Buzzards are seen nearly every 

 season at Edenchip, head of Loch Earn, in Nov. This indicates 

 probably an extension of the line and migration reported from 

 Loch Tay by Mr. Dewar [v. 2nd Eeport]. Whether they be 

 Common or Rough-legged, the probability is that specimens procured 

 in Forfar, seen on Lochs Tay and Loch Earn, reported again from 

 Boquhan in Stirlingshire, and again from Duntreath near Campsie 

 in the same county, are all individuals of the same migratory flight. 

 The frequency of their occurrence along this line during migration, 

 and comparative scarcity on either side of it, indicates, to my mind, 

 a tolerably distinct course taken year after year by these species. 

 The original starting-point probably is Scandinavia or further N.E., 

 and they may or may not be joined by our home-bred specimens, 

 now, alas ! getting much scarcer every year. 



Rough-legged Buzzard — Buteo lagopus (Gm.). — After the high 

 gales on our E. coast in the end of Oct., Rough-legged Buzzards 

 began to appear as usual at various stations. Two were shot in 

 the Stewartry, one at Blackwood, the other at Southinch, between 

 26th Oct. and 4th Nov. — [R. Service in lit, 4th Nov.]. One — a 

 female — was obtained at Pencaitland, near Edinburgh, on 8th Nov., 

 and a male at Innerleithen on the 15th Nov., whilst another was 

 obtained at Saltoun Hall, Haddington, on 16th Nov. Common 

 Buzzards accompanied them. Mr. George Sim, also, writing on 

 26th Jan., reports that R. L. Buzzards have put in an appearance, 

 and he had some sent him the previous week. 



Red-legged Falcon. — Falco vespertiiius, Lin. — One shot at 

 Kinghorn in Fife, on 20th Sept., passed into the possession of Mr. 

 R. Small, -Edinburgh, and from him to the Industrial Museum 

 there. It proved, on dissection, to be a young male. 



Hobby. — Falco siibbuteo, Lin. — Note to notice of this species in 

 2nd Report [Vol. iv., p. 304]. — On making further inquiries regard- 

 ing the alleged migration of Hobbies in the Lews, I received the 

 following statement from Mr. R. Notman, gamekeeper at Eishken 

 Lodge : — " The Hobby Hawk comes to the Lews in autumn, and 

 I think leaves in spring again. I do not know of any one who has 

 seen their nest." Later, in a " List of the Birds of the Lews," sent 

 me by Lady Matheson's gamekeeper at Stornoway — an old and 

 experienced Highland keeper, formerly in the Reay country in 

 Sutherland, the Hobby is included alongside the Merlin, and a 

 note added — " Observed first by Mr. Greenwood, lessee of Castle 



