26 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 
webs alone are dusky, the base of the inner web 
being white for nearly two-thirds of the length of the 
feather; under wing-coverts and flanks white and 
yellowish white, barred with brown; tail greyish 
brown, barred with brown. 
The eggs of the Common Buzzard vary much in 
colouring; Hewitson says, according to the age of 
the bird, those of the first year being nearly white. 
The specimen I have before me is about the size of 
a hen’s egg; ground colour greenish white, much 
blotched with two shades of rusty, one considerably 
brighter than the other, the second so light that it 
is scarcely to be distinguished from the ground 
colour. 
RovuGHLEGGED Buzzarp, Buteo lagopus. The 
Roughlegged Buzzard is another very rare species 
in our county, and indeed throughout England, 
though on the Continent it appears to be as common 
as, if not more so than, the species last described, 
from which it may be immediately distinguished by 
the feathered tarsus. 
I know of very few occurrences of this bird in 
Somerset: the one in my own collection was shot at 
Chargot Lodge, and purchased by me at the sale of 
Sir John Lethbridge’s birds at Sandhill, in the cata- 
logue of which sale it figured under the name of an 
Eagle. This bird has also been taken in the neigh- 
bourhood of Burnham, but the specimen taken there 
escaped, the gentleman who shot it having only 
