138 BUTEO VULGARIS. 



§411. Three. — Wuopio-uoma-ranta, Kemi Lappmark, May, 



1858. 



Brought to Muoniovara; 19th June, by Kyro Nikoo, having been 

 taken about a month since. 



§ 412. Two. — Kota-vaara, Enontekis Lappmark, 1858. 



Brought to Muoniovara, 19th Juue, by Sieppinen Johan, having 

 been found two or three weeks before. 



§ 413. Two. — Muotka-jarwi, Enontekis Lappmark, 1858. 

 Brought to Muoniovara, 26th December 1858, by Maria. 



BUTEO VULGARIS, Bechstein. 



BUZZARD. 



§414. 7%ree.— Sutherlandshire, 28 April, 1849. "J. W. ipse:' 



Hewitson, * Eggs of British Birds,' ed. 3, pi. xiv. fig. 1. 



Four or five hundred yards further south [from the Falcon's nest 

 (§ 222)] we saw a Buzzard's nest, or Glead's, as it is here called ; and 

 though it was only about twenty-four feet from the ground, I had 

 great difl&culty in getting at it, as the rock was in little broken bits. 

 I tried to climb up with the rope ; but afterwards I climbed from 

 above with the rope under my arms, my man working it round a 

 stake, and all was then easy. There were boys' or men's foot-marks 

 to be seen about it, they not having been able to get at the nest, 

 which was fixed into the roots of a mountain ash, i.e. between the 

 trunk and the rock, and made of old heather- stalks, lined with the 

 same Luzula as Eagles use. It contained three dirty eggs, one of 

 which was unspotted. They were quite cold, and one was cracked in 

 the nest before 1 touched it. The nest from below had the appearance 

 of a large Crow's. The bird, soaring far overhead, was quite silent. 

 There was a steep slope down to the edge of the rock, covered with 

 long heather ; but the nest was not more than six or seven feet below 

 the edge. The rock was a resumption of the range whereon was 

 the Peregrine's nest before described [§ 222], one of the birds of 



