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a brood of this Harrier killed near Barnstaple in 

 1868, and the Editor believes that he refers to the 

 same specimens that Mr. Howard Saunders has 

 reported to him. " I saw the young- Montagu's 

 Harriers," says Mr. Saunders, " at the back of the 

 Lyndale Hotel, Lynmouth, about the middle of 

 August, 1868 ; I was told that the keeper at 

 Simondsbath had trapped the parents. I bought 

 the birds, and some years afterwards, when my 

 collection got too big, I made a present of the case 

 to the Rev. W. Lawson, then Vicar of Lynton. 

 The nest was probably in Devon, but it might have 

 been in Somerset. Last year (1888), I saw an adult 

 female coming back from Malmsmead, and three 

 young birds were several times seen hovering at 

 once over the drives on the hill above our house at 

 Porlock. I noticed that these young Harriers 

 hovered a good deal after the manner of Kestrils, 

 though less stationary. These birds were all seen 

 in Somerset, though close to the Devon border." 



Mr. Rawson examined in the flesh a young bird 

 of this species, killed at Santon, N. Devon, August 

 1885. The Earl of Morley has another, killed at 

 Blagdon, and a few others exist in local collections. 



BUZZARD. — Buteo vulgaris, Leach. 



A EESiDENT species. " In the North of the County," 

 writes Mr. Rawson, " it is still holding its ground. 

 I knew three nests this year and took one clutch of 

 three. I have come across six pairs altogether. 



