128 PEREGRINE FALCON. 



that had been bred in the Whitfield V/oods. The old bird was 

 sold at a bazaar in aid of St. Devereux Church, and for the young 

 birds the keeper asked the prohibitory price of ^£5. Mr. W. C. 

 Blake, of Ross, states that a Honey Buzzard was trapped on the 

 Goodrich estate in the summer of 1879 ; and another specimen in 

 July, 1 88 1, at the Queen's Wood, Marcle. A second bird was seen 

 in company with this one, and the presumption was strong that it 

 was the mate, and that they had bred in the locality. 



The food of the Honey Buzzard consists chiefly of the larvae 

 of bees and wasps, moles, earthworms, slugs, coleopterous and 

 lepidopterous insects, and occasionally dead flesh. It does, there- 

 fore, but little injury, and but for the hatred of gamekeepers to 

 Hawks of all kinds, might safely be allowed to give interest and 

 pleasure in our woods and fields. 



Mr. W. C. Blake points out that the cere, which in all other 

 birds of prey is naked, in the Honey Buzzard is thickly set with 

 feathers, and is thus protected against the stings of wasps and 

 bees, affording an admirable instance of the wisdom of its great 

 Creator. 



[Genus — Hierofalco.] 



[HiEROFALCO GYRFALCO — Gyr Falcon.] 



One specimen shot near Orford in Suffolk in 1867. 



[Hierofalco candicans — Greenland Falcon.] 



[J^a/co candidans — Yarrell.\ 



An occasional visitant from the North to the British Islands. 



[Hierofalco islandus — Iceland Falcon.] 

 A scarce and occasional visitant to Great Britain. 



