ARCHIBUTEO LAGOPUS. 121 



[§ 336. 0;2e.—" Germany, 1858." From Pastor Theobald's 

 Collection, 1859]. 



[^ 337. 0;^^.— From Herr J. G. W. Brandt's Collection, through 

 Dr. K T. Frere, 1861. 



Hewitson, ' Eggs of British Birds,' ed. 3. pi. xy. fig. 2.] 



\_\ 338. r«6'o.— Frame Wood, Hampshire, 10 July, 1861. "With 

 bii^d. W. F." From Mr. W. Farren. 



Mr. Farren's notes on the breeding of the Honey-Buzzard in the New 

 Forest and adjacent woods will be found in the ' Zoologist ' for 1862, 

 p. 8159.] 



ARCHIBUTEO LAGOPUS (Linn^us). 

 ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 



[I cannot publish the details of the magnificent series of the eggs of this 

 species which Mr. WoUey's cabinet contains, without adding a few remarks. 

 When he first went to Lapland, in 1863, identified and authenticated speci- 

 mens were almost, if not quite, imknown to Biitish collectors ^ He foimd 

 the bird veiy plentiful around Muonioniska ; but all the nests had hatched, 

 and that season he was only able to secure a few fragments of a single e^g. 

 Some months later, he obtained a couple of specimens fi-om the pastor of 

 Kaaressuando, by whom they had been procured for the chance of any one 

 inquu'ing for them. The following year, 1854, Mr. WoUey applied himself 

 especially to get properly identified examples. He took gi-eat pains to dis- 

 cover whether the Common Buzzard (Bnteo vulgaris) ever visited the disti-ict. 

 He spoke to all the persons he employed of the possibility of there being two 

 sorts of Piekotina (the name usually applied to the Rough-legged Buzzard by 

 the northern Finns), -without giving any indication of the difierences between 

 them, merely requiring the feet of one of the birds to be brought, and offer- 

 ing the same reward for either. This plan he continued to follow, imtil he 

 had thoroughly satisfied himself that the Rough-legged Buzzard alone bred 

 in the far north. However, in his Sale Catalogue of 1855-1856, he stated 

 that one example of the Common Buzzard was "recognized" just ■wdthin the 



1 [It is recorded of this species by the late Mr. W. C. Williamson, of Scar- 

 borough (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1836, p. 77), that it "breeds occasionally'' near Hackness; 

 and the truth of the statement has been confirmed by Mr. Hewitson ('Eggs B. B.,' 

 p. 26) through his friend, Mr. James Tuke. In Mr. Wolley's Note-book I find the 

 following : — " Sept. 1843, Mr. Williamson informed me that the Rough-legged 

 Buzzard, which used to breed at Hackness, is now extirpated there. He saw the 

 last two on a barn-door two years ago! He has not got the egg-^^ — Ed,] 



