BUZZARDS. 9 



ber 1884, I observed a Buzzard flying low over the 

 stubble pick up a Partridge, which it held screaming 

 in its claws. I pursued it with a companion, when 

 the Partridge was dropped and escaped unscathed. 



ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. Buteo lagopus, (Graelin). 



Yarrell, i. p. 115 ; Ilarting, p. 6 ; Arcliibuteo lagopus, Dresser, 

 V. p. 471; Aquila lagopus, Seebohm, i. p. 1 1 1 ; Ibis List, 

 P- 95- 



The Rough-legged Buzzard is a northern species, 

 rarely visiting this county in autumn. Two passed 

 through the hands of Mr. Rolls, bird-stufFer, of Wey- 

 mouth, one of which was shot at Weymouth, the 

 other at Creech Grange, in Purbeck ; two shot in the 

 neighbourhood of Blandford were in the collection 

 of the late Mr. C. O. Bartlett ; Mr. Hart, of Christ- 

 church, stuffed a Dorsetshire specimen in 1857 ; and 

 one was killed at Rempston in 1862. An immature 

 bird shot at Morden Park in 187 1 is now in the 

 possession of the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, who saw 

 one alive at Bloxworth in 1862; while the last on 

 record was shot at Alderney Manor, Poole, in the 

 autumn of 1879 (C. Hart). 



HONEY-BUZZARD. Fernis apivorus, (L.) 



Yarrell, i. p. 121 ; Harting, p. 6; Dresser, vi. p. 3; Seehohm^ 

 i. p. 69 ; Ibis List, p. 100; Falco apivorus, Pulteney's List, 

 P- 3- 



The Honey-Buzzard is a summer migrant, and still 

 breeds in favoured places in Great Britain, notably 



