A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 115 



Dec, 1861. Lanes., 1875. Northumberland, Oct., 1885. Essex 

 Oct. and Nov., 1891. Suffolk, Nov., 1891 (one shot and one seen). 

 Ireland. Two near Youghal (Cork), Jan., 1845. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — From shores of Baltic (Livland) east to 

 Turkestan, south Siberia, north India, and China, and south to 

 Balkan Peninsula and Palestine. On migration to north-east Africa, 

 and India to Burmah, casual in west and south Europe. 



BUTEG LAGOPUS* 



242. Buteolagopus lagopus (Brunn.)— THE ROUGH-LEGGED 

 BUZZARD. 



Falco Lagopus Briinnich, Om. Bor., p. 4 (1764 — Christiansoe near 



Bomholm, Baltic). 



Buteo lagopus (J. F. Gmelin), Yarrell, i, p. 115 ; Saunders, p. 323. 



Distribution. — Great Britain. — Irregular mnter- visit or (Oct. to 

 March and April), occurring most years east coast Scotland and 

 England as far south as Norfolk, and at intervals in considerable 

 numbers, as in winters 1875-6, 1880-1, 1891-2, 1903-4. Also 

 fairly frequent along Pennine Chain, rarer in south-east England, 

 and only occasional vagrant elsewhere, being especially rare on west 

 side. In O. Hebrides once. Ireland. — Seventeen, most frequently 

 in Ulster. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — North Europe and north Asia, very 

 exceptionally breeding as far south as Germany. In winter vagrant 

 and partially migrant, now and then reaching Pyrenees, Mediter- 

 ranean regions, Caspian and Black Sea. Replaced by other sub- 

 species in North America and parts of Asia. 



BUTEO BUTEO 



243. Buteo buteo buteo (L.)— THE COMMON BUZZARD. 



Falco Buteo Linnaeus, Syst. Xat., ed. x, i, p. 90 (1758 — Europe). 

 Buteo vulgaris Leach, Yarrell, i, p. 109 ; Saunders, p. 321. 



Distribution. — Great Britain. — Resident, breeding commonly 

 in Wales, Devonian peninsula and Lakeland (as well as very 

 sparingly in Pennines), and in central and west Scotland including 

 0. Hebrides ; only exceptionally elsewhere. On east coast irregular 

 migrant, but elsewhere only occasional visitor, although numerous 

 in some winters ; occurrence at any time in Shetlands doubtful, and 



* It is not advisable to separate Buteo and Archihuteo ,hecainse some Asiatic 

 species are intermediate and vary very much with regard to the feathering 

 of the tarsas — the only difference in these supposed genera. -^E.H. 



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