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above and white beneath, soaring at a great height over the garden 

 at Sellack Vicarage, Ross. It circled higher and higher, until it 

 was altogether lost to sight. On an earlier occasion, about 1854, 

 the Rev.W. Baskerville Mynors informed me that a bird, answering to 

 the description of the Swallow-tailed Kite, had been seen on several 

 days at Treago, and had settled on the roof of Treago House, and 

 he also shewed me a wing feather that had been picked up there at 

 the time, which certainly resembled the wing feathers of this species. 



[Genus— Elanus.] 



[Elanus cceruleus — Black-winged Kite.] 



Said to have been shot in Harrison Bay, Ireland, 1862. 



Genus— PERNIS. 



PERNIS APIVORUS— Honey Buzzard. 



Some few years since the Honey Buzzard was not uncommon 

 in Herefordshire, but it has now become very scarce, from the 

 relentless persecutions of the gamekeepers with their destructive 

 traps. Mr. Lechmere, of Fownhope Court, has a very good speci- 

 men of the Honey Buzzard, which was trapped by Mr. Eckley's 

 keeper on Credenhill Camp, about the year 1861. It is a male 

 bird, in good plumage. The Rev. Clement Ley says (Woolhope 

 Transactions, 1869, p. 72) "a few years since, a male Honey 

 Buzzard was killed in the neighbourhood of Ross, and within a few 

 days a female was shot from her nest in Newent Wood, which was 

 not improbably the mate of the former bird ; the nest contained 

 three eggs," About ten years since, the Hereford bird-stuffers 

 had two or three freshly killed Honey Buzzards brought to 

 them every year. Three were brought, in 1880, from Whitfield, to 

 be stuffed. They consisted of an old male bird, and two young ones 



