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In the forest of St. Leonard a bird of this 

 species has also been shot by Mr. Aldridge's 

 gamekeeper, and it has been met with occasion- 

 all}^ still further to the eastward, between Ash- 

 down Forest and the borders of Kent. 



The common buzzard (Buteo vulgaris) is far 

 more rare; I have never been able to meet with 

 it among the woods where it was once a well- 

 known species, nor have I as yet succeeded in 

 obtaining one within the limits of the county.* I 

 have, however, examined two or three recent ex- 

 amples which had been shot in Sussex, and seen 

 a few cabinet specimens which were so highly 

 prized by their possessors as to be unattainable. 

 It would appear to be even more scarce in other 

 parts of England. Mr. Waterton speaks of it as 

 extinct in Yorkshire. He says, "In 1813 I had 

 my last sight of the buzzard;'' and the Kev. R. 

 Lubbock, in his "Fauna of Norfolk,'' considers it 

 equally rare in that county. He thus writes : — 



* I have since obtained a Sussex-killed buzzard 

 which was shot in December, 1848, at Stanmer Park, 

 and two beautiful specimens which were trapped in 

 East Dean Wood have been kindly presented to me 

 by Lord March. There is also an example in the col- 

 lection of the Bishop of Oxford, at Lavington, which 

 was killed some years ago at West Dean. — 3rd Edition. 



