142 ■ BUTEO FEROX. 



[§ 425. Two.— Bhis, France, 1859. From M. Souchay's Col- 

 lection. 



These my brother Edward obtained, at Blois, from M. Souchaj^, who is a 

 bird-stufFer there, and said they were taken in the neighbourhood.] 



[§ 426. One — Switzerland (?). From M. Nager-Donazain's Col- 

 lection, 1859.] 



\} 427. One. — "Bm'well, Cambridgeshire." From Mr. E. Fit- 

 ton's Collection, through Dr. R. T. Frere, 1861.] 



BUTEO FEROX (S. G. Gmelin). 

 LONG-LEGGED BUZZARD. 



[§ 428. One. — " Sarepta," Southern Russia (?). 



This egg I picked out of a lot which had been sent to Mr. Stevens's auc- 

 tion-rooms. The name is wi-itten on it in a foreign hand, and, I dare say, is 

 right.] 



[§ 429. Four. " Sarepta," Southern Russia. From Herr H. F. 

 Moschler's Collection, 1862. 



These eggs I received direct from Herr Moschler, who, himself one of the 

 United Brethren, carries on an extensive ornithological trade with the Mora- 

 vian settlement at Sarepta, on the Lower Volga. His notes on the habits of 

 this species (imder the synonym of Butaetos Jeucurws, Naumann) will be foimd 

 in the ' Naumannia ' for 185.3 (pp. 296-.303). From them I extract the fol- 

 lowing passage relating to its breeding in that district : — " It builds its nest 

 on the projections of the declivities of the vales with which the Steppe is 

 everywhere intersected, or above on the ground close to the declivities. 

 Whether it also nests on hillocks is yet uncertain. The nest is about 1^ 

 Rhenish foot [rather more than the English one] in diameter. The depres- 

 sion therein is not far from the size of the crown of a hat. It is built of dry 

 gTass, straw, hair, fur, bits of skin, and the like, on a foundation of thick 

 stalks, brushwood, kc. From the middle of April one finds therein three to 

 four, seldom five, eggs." ('Naumannia,' 18.58, p. 801.)] 



