BUZZARDS 2 I 



Enclosure, 7th June 1871 ; and two, Stoney Cross, 

 17th June 1872, besides others taken in previous 

 years. The young were hatched there as lately as 

 1895. The late Dr. Eooke of Scarborough had the 

 eggs from Hackness, Yorkshire, two of which I saw. 

 In July 1877 two young birds were taken from a 

 nest in an extensive oak wood at Whitfield, near 

 Hereford, where a few days later the female bird 

 was trapped (Zool, 1879, p. 132). 



According to Macgillivray and Robert Gray, the 

 eggs of the Honey - Buzzard have been taken in 

 Aberdeenshire. In Ireland it is a very rare visitor. 

 One in the Dublin Museum was obtained in Kildare 

 in 1882, and another was shot in a wood near Gorey, 

 Co. Wexford, in Oct. 1892. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney states that, besides being a 

 summer visitant, this species arrives as an early 

 autumnal migrant on the east coast, and the birds 

 so arriving are mostly birds of the year. 



The late Mr. E. Clough Newcome, who died in 

 September 1871, introduced some young Honey- 

 Buzzards from France, and allowed them their 

 liberty in Norfolk, where he resided ; but although 

 they became tame and remained for some time about 

 the house, they disappeared in the autumn. As a 

 rule, the Honey-Buzzard departs in September, but 

 in 1863 one was shot at Priory Hall, St. Neots, by 

 Mr. Dawson Rowley's keeper (W. Pearson), as late 

 as Oct. 20. A female bird of this species which I 

 examined in the flesh measured 23 inches in length ; 

 expanse of wing, 52 inches ; weight, 1 lb. 14 oz. 



