284 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



Mr. R. T. Filiner relates that a nest was taken from 

 the Great Fh-s, Kent, ahout thirty years ago. The bird 

 has also been observed at HoUingbourne by Mr. E. D. do 

 Uphaugh; and on April 11, 1906, a Buzzard was seen 

 to come up from Eomney Marsh and cross over in the 

 direction of Bilsington. 



Genus ARCHIBUTEO, C. L. Brehm. 



EOUGH-LEGGED BUZZAED. 



Arcliihuteo lagoims (Gmelin). >S'.iV., i., p. "260 

 (1788). 



A great many specimens of the Rough-legged Buzzard 

 have been taken in Kent, and it appears to be a regular 

 autumn and winter visitor, and some of these occurrences 

 were caused, no doubt, by the Franco-German War. 



There is a female of this species in the British Museum 

 labelled Kent ; it was presented by Dr. Latham, and in 

 his Supplement to the Synopsis, p. 19 (1787), he mentions 

 that the Rev. — Wilgress, of Eltham, Kent, sent him a 

 specimen ; perhaps this is the same bird. 



Montagu records one in Kent, picked up dead on the 

 coast in the winter of 1792. The Rev. J. Pemberton 

 Bartlett says : " This is but an occasional visitor. A 

 specimen, which is now stuffed, was taken by the keeper 

 of J. P. Plamtre, Esq., M.P., at Fredville, Nonington. 

 There is also a specimen in Dr. F. Plomley's collection." 

 Mr. A. Skinner records that a " Rough-legged Buzzard 

 was taken by a keeper, in the summer of 1869, from a 

 trap baited with Partridge near Faversham." Mr. D. T. 

 Button, of Gravesend, writing February 21, 1872, says : 

 " I have had several Rough -legged Buzzards sent me 

 this winter; they were all females." 



