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birds shot (Heatley Noble, t.c, 1900, p. 423). Sussex.— Eg^s 

 were laid in east tSussex in 1893, but birds and nest were 

 destroyed. In 1903 a similar fate attended a pair of birds at 

 the same place (N. F. T., Zool., 1903, p. 421). Hampshire.— 

 A nest with young ones was found in the south-east of the 

 county on July 13th, 1898, and this " nesting-haunt is still 

 visited by the birds." The bird nested in the New Forest 

 district in 1901 (Kelsall and Munn, B. of Hants, p. 147). 

 Cornwall. — Has been a scarce summer migrant for over forty 

 years ; there was still one nest at least in the west last spring 

 (J. Clark, t.c, 1907, p. 284). 



Ireland. — A male and female (birds of the year) were 

 trapped near Gorey, co. Wexford, on August 14th, 1899 

 (E. Wilhams, Irish Nat., 1899, p. 232). An immature male 

 was shot near Kylebeg, Blessington, co. WicMow, on Sep- 

 tember 7th, 1899 {id., t.c, 1900, p. 21). A male was trapped 

 near Sallygap, co. Wicklotv, in June, 1907 (W. J. Wilhams, 

 ZooL, 1907, p. 354). The bird appears to have been recorded 

 now ten times in all in Ireland, and all these occurrences 

 have been in or near co. Wicklow, which points to their 

 nesting somewhere in the district. 



ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD Buteo lagopus (J. F. Gm.). 

 S. page 323. 



Besides occasional visitors which occur every year here 

 and there in these islands, this species periodically visits 

 our shores in considerable numbers, and such an immigration 

 occurred in the middle of October, 1903, along the coasts of 

 south-east Scotland, and north-east England, as far south 

 as Norfolk. The first recorded arrival in Scotland was on 

 October 9th, in Forfarshire, while one was taken as far north 

 as Orkney on October 19th. By the end of the month a 

 number had settled down on the Pentland Hills, near 

 Edinburgh, and as many as eight were seen together. They 

 were still frequenting the Pentlands in the middle of December, 

 1903 (W. Evans, Ann. S.N.H., 1904, p. 56). One was 

 trapped in the same autumn in North Uist, where the bird 

 is seldom seen (A. M'Elfrish, t.c, p. 55). In England the 

 first recorded bird appears to have been on October 10th, 

 at Flamborough, and subsequently they were seen in consider- 

 able numbers in various parts of Yorkshire (twenty, for 

 instance, being reported on the Seamer Moors, between 

 October 13th and November 7th), and they appear to have 

 stayed on at all events on Swainby Moor until the following 

 April (T. H. Nelson, Birds of Yorks., Vol. I., p. 323). On 



