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Bankes ^vTites that a female was killed in the same place 

 on Feb. 18th, 1885, and there is a specimen in the Devizes 

 Museum shot on the Hurdecott Estate (no date). 



Common Buzzard {Buteo b. buteo). — Mr. A. Bankes tells 

 me that a male was killed in Ridge Wood, Hindon, on 

 September 16, 1887. One was shot at Aldbourne in October, 

 1911, and there is a pair in the Devizes Museum from 

 Savernake (no date). 



White-tailed Eagle {Haliactus alhicilla). — One was seen 

 at Salisbury on January 31st. 1897 (Salisbury Journal, 

 Feb. 6th, 1897). One Avas shot in Grovely AVood in March, 

 1905 [Wilts County Mirror, May 3rd, 1905), and another 

 at Marden on Februarj^ 24th. 1909 — now in the Devizes 

 Museum [Marlborough Times, March 6th, 1909, etc.). 



iMoNTAGu's Haerier [Circus pygargus). — One was seen 

 near Braydon on October 28th, 1905 [W.A.db N.H., XXXIV., 

 p. 434). In the Devizes Museum there is a case containing 

 a female and a young bird shot on the Hurdecott Estate 

 —no date (reporfed in W.A.<i^ N.H., XXXVL, p. 486, as a 

 male Marsh -Harrier) ; and another containing a male shot 

 near WintersloA^', in 1858. 



Hen-Harrier [Circus cyaneus). — One was shot on Erchfont 

 Downs on Dec. 30th, 1879 [M.C.N.H.), and one was seen at 

 Downton on April 29th, 1912 [Bull. B.O.C., XXXII.). 



Kite [Milvus milvus). — A male was shot at Fonthill in 

 Nov., 1896 [Field, Nov. 28th, 1896), and there is a specimen 

 in tlie Blackmore Museum shot at Cholderton (no date). 



Honey-Buzzard [Pernis a. apivorus). — A specimen in 

 the Devizes Museum was shot in the West Woods near 

 Marlborough in 1885. This is supposed to be the specimen 

 recorded by Smith [Birds of Wiltshire, p. 91), but he gives 

 the date as 1855. 



Little Bittern [Ixobrychus minutus). — Mr. E. Cambridge 

 Phillips writes that "a male was killed at Whetham, near 

 Calne, and vuitil recently was in my brother's collection at 

 Chippenham." 



Bittern [Botaurus s. stellaris). — I have records of no less 

 than t^^-enty- three, of -which t^venty are of later date than 

 Smith's book ; viz. five in 1892, one in 1897, seven in 1900, 

 tln-ee in 1902, one in 1903 and three in 1908. 



Sheld-Duck [Tadorna tadorna). — ^A male was seen at 

 Potterne in the winter of 1897 [W.A.d: N.H., XXIX, p. 197). 



