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North Africa, and India. To England its visits are purely accci- 
dental; yet it has been killed therein six or seven times—namely, 
once in Hampshire, twice in Cornwall, and thrice in Ireland. 
When mentioning in my account of this species that the second 
Cornish example, killed near Carnanton, is now in the Truro Mu- 
seum, I ought to have added “ to which institution it was presented 
by E. Brydges Willyams, Esq.”—an omission which I now rectify. 
Genus Hatratsrvs. 
METAR AT DICINEA 2.6 2 <« «-. « .« « Vol. 1. PL IV. 
Spa-Eacre. 
Inhabits Greenland, Europe, and North Africa. More maritime 
in its habits than the Golden Eagle. Breeds in the north. Feeds 
on fish and garbage of any kind thrown up by the sea. 
Since my account of the Sea-Eagle was printed, Captain Elwes 
has published, in ‘ The Ibis’ for 1869, an interesting paper on the 
‘ Bird-Stations of the Outer Hebrides.” 
Speaking of the Spiant Isles, ‘a small group lying in the Minch, 
about six miles from the coast of Lewis,” he says: “There is a 
celebrated eyry of the White-tailed Eagle (Haliaétus albicilla) here, 
which has been used from time immemorial and is mentioned by 
Martin, who wrote nearly two hundred years ago. I think it is as 
perfectly inaccessible as any nest can be, owing to the way in which 
the rock overhangs, and, if the birds are not destroyed, will remain in 
use for centuries.” 
Genus Panpton. 
GoeeANDION MATTARTUS!. «6 coo « o)e.« Vol. J. Pl V. 
OspPREY. 
Formerly common in Scotland, where on most of the ruined 
castles in the neighbourhood, and on the islands in the lochs, its 
eyry might have been found; now it has become scarce, and, unless 
it be protected, will soon be extirpated. If, as has been supposed, 
there is but one species of this form, then it may be said to be 
almost universally distributed over the other parts of the Old World, 
as it also is in the greater part of the New. Lives almost wholly 
onfish. Is a summer visitant, arriving at its breeding-places in the 
spring, and departs southward in autumn. 
Subfamily BUTEONIN A. 
Buzzards are found in nearly every country of the globe. The 
fauna of Europe comprises three or four species, all of which have 
been killed in Britain ; but of these one has but slender claims to be 
enumerated among the birds of our islands. 
