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but still not including a single adult. About tlie same 

 time with, the Holkham specimen an immature female 

 was taken at Saxmundham, in Suffolk. The stomachs 

 of both, these birds were found well filled with young 

 wasps, and in the latter a few pieces of moss, which had 

 no doubt been accidentally swallowed during the destruc- 

 tion of the wasps' nest. 



In September, 1854, a young male Having tbe bead 

 yellowish wbite, with a few dark patches, and more or 

 less resembling both the varieties in the museum col- 

 lection (British series), was captured at Holkham, and 

 in this case the bird was observed by a keeper to rise 

 from a bank near a wasps' nest, and was trapped soon 

 afterwards on the same spot. With reference to the 

 food of the honey buzzard it may be worthy of remark, 

 that in the stomach and crop of one killed near Lowestoft 

 in the spring of 1854 ("Zoologist," p. 5249), were 

 found the remains of blackbirds' eggs ; also in the 

 throat of a specimen shot at Lynford, near Thetford, in 

 1851, several small fragments of the eggs of the song 

 thrush. The following are the more recent instances of 

 the appearance of this species on our eastern coast : — 



1856. A female killed at Burhngham, in Norfolk, 

 towards the end of June, exhibiting some grey about 

 the head; and two young males, one taken alive at 

 Gunton, and another at Pakefield, near Lowestoft, 

 Suffolk, a rather favourite locality. 



1857. Two male birds, in full adult plumage, shot 

 on the 25th of August, at Northrepps, near Cromer, 

 now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney. A third 

 specimen was also seen at the same time, but was not 

 obtained. On the 28th of the same month, an immature 

 female was killed at Salhouse; and on the 7th of 

 September another, also immature, at Woodbastwick, 

 and a young male, about the same time, on the 

 Somerleyton estate, near Lowestoft, Suffolk. The 



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