146 CTRCUS CYANEUS. 



were deeply stained when they arrived, mostly upon one side, but I 

 do not remember then to have observed the groups of yellowish spots 

 near the holes of several. Can these have been caused by the larvm 

 of moths, which may have attacked the sheep's wool in which I have 

 left them since their arrival ? 



§450. T^z^a— Argyllshire, 13 May, 1852. 



These were sent to me by a forester, under the name of the " Ring- 

 tail or Hen- Harrier.'^ As he failed in catching the young bii'ds for 

 me, 1 must for the present remain in doubt as to whether they are 

 the Common or Montagu's Harrier. 



[In 1854 I received from tlie same locality a pair of young Harriers, which 

 I kept alive for some time. They were undoubtedly Circus cyancus\ and 

 though Sir William Milner mentions that he procured Circus cineraccus in 

 Sutherlandshire (' Zoologist,' 1848, p. 2014), I question much if that species 

 is ever found breeding in Scotland.] 



§ 451. Four. — Eastern England. 



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



These are most probably from Mr. Harvey, of Bait's-bight, l)ut per- 

 haps from Mr. Osborne, of Fulbourn, or Tom Rawlinson. From the 

 mode of blowing, and the improbability of my having got them from 

 any other source without recollecting it, I have no doubt they are 

 British specimens. 



[One of the above-mentioned eggs is, as stated, the original of Mr. He wit- 

 son's figure. I should think it likely that Mr. WoUey did not obtain them 

 later than 1845 ; but they seem to have lain in his cabinet without being 

 properly marked for ten years or more. Mr. WoUey's character of Tom Raw- 

 linson will be foimd in < The Zoologist ' for 1847, p. 1822.] 



§452. 0;?^.— Lincolnshire, 14 May, 1856. From Mr. G. 

 Adrian. 



[This egg was received by me from Mr. Wolley, together with the Kites' 

 of the same year before mentioned (§ 299 and § 310).] 



§ 453. 2Vtree. — Konna-jarwi, Maunu, Tornea Lappmark, 1857. 



These eggs were said by the IMortanen lads to belong to the Hawk 

 which is Avhite on the wings [!], but whose name they did not know^ 



' [The name by which the Hen-Harrier is commonly called in northern I^apland 

 is, I believe, Sam)uahlo-IIaulda, i. c. ' Frog-IIawk.' — Ed.] 



