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"Birds West Scot.," p. 47). The late Mr. Scales of 

 Beechamwell, near SwafFham, remarked that the 

 Rough-legged Buzzard annually visited the warren 

 there in November and remained for some time in 

 quest of rabbits. On the authority of the late Mr. 

 Williamson of Scarborough, the nest of this bird is 

 said to have been found near Hackness, Yorkshire ; 

 and the late Thomas Edward reported one near 

 Banff (Ihis, 1865, p. 12). Sir William Jardine 

 informed me that the Rough-legged Buzzard once 

 bred near Twizel, Northumberland, and that he 

 accompanied the late J. P. Selby to look at the 

 nest. This must have been subsequent to the 

 publication of Selby's " Illustrations of British 

 Ornithology" in 1833, or the circumstance would 

 certainly have been noticed in that work. Eggs of 

 this bird, taken by Wolley in Lapland, are beauti- 

 fully figured in Newton's Ootheca Wolleyana. 



HONEY-BUZZARD. Pernis apivorus (Linnseus). PI. 3, 

 figs. 1, 2, 2a. Length, 23-5 in. ; wing, 17-25 in. ; 

 tarsus, 2 in. 



A summer migrant from the south, sparingly dis- 

 tributed. Formerly nested in Selborne Hanger, as 

 recorded by Gilbert White (Letter xliii. to Pennant), 

 at Burnham Beeches {Mag. Nat. Hist., 1837, p. 

 539), in Wellgrove Wood, Oxfordshire {Zool, 1844, 

 p. 237), and in several parts of the New Forest. I 

 have seen eggs of the Honey-Buzzard from the New 

 Forest taken at the following places and dates : — 

 Two, South Bradley, 3rd July 1870 ; two, Crookley 



