146 CTRCUS CYANEUS. 



were deeply stained when they arrived, mostly upon one side, but I 

 do not remember then to have observed the groups of yellowish spots 

 near the holes of several. Can these have been caused by the larv<B 

 of moths, which may have attacked the sheep's wool in Avhich I have 

 left them since their arrival ? 



§450. Tbo.— Argyllshire, 13 May, 1852. 



These were sent to me by a forester, under the name of the " Ring- 

 tail or Hen-Harrier." As he failed in catching the young birds for 

 me, I must for the present remain in doubt as to whether they are 

 the Common or Montagu's Harrier. 



[In 1854 I received from tlie same locality a pair of young- Harriers, which 

 I kept alive for some time. They were undoubtedly Circus cyaneus ; and 

 though Sir William Milner mentions that he procured Circus dneraceus in 

 Sutherlandshire (' Zoologist,' 1848, p. 2014), I question much if that species 

 is ever found breeding in Scotland.] 



§ 451. Four. — Eastern England. 



Hewitson, ' Eggs of British Birds,' ed. 3. pi. xvi. fig. 2. 



These are most probably from Mr. Harvey, of Bait's-bight, but per- 

 haps from Mr. Osborne, of Fulbourn, or Tom Rawlinson. From the 

 mode of blowing, and the improbability of my having got them from 

 any other source without recollecting it, I have no doubt they are 

 British specimens. 



[One of the above-mentioned eggs is, as stated, the original of Mr. Hewit- 

 son's figure. I should think it likely that Mr. Wolley did not obtain them 

 later than 1845 ; but they seem to have lain in his cabinet without being 

 properly marked for ten years or more. Mr. Wolley 's character of Tom Raw- 

 linson wiU be found in ' The Zoologist ' for 1847, p. 1822.] 



§452. 0;2e.— Lincolnshire, 14 May, 1856. From Mr. G. 

 Adrian. 



[This Q^^ was received by me from Mr, Wolley, together with the Kites' 

 of the same year before mentioned (§ 299 and § 310).] 



^ 453. Three. — Konna-jarwi, Maunu, Tornea Lappmark, 1857. 



These eggs were said by the Mortanen lads to belong to the Hawk 

 which is white on the wings [!], but whose name they did not know^ 



^ [The name by which the Hen-Harrier is commonly called in northern Lapland 

 is, I believe, Sajnmaklo-Haiihka, i. c. 'Frog-IIawk.' — Ed.] 



