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nest of four eggs having been found there about the 

 year 1876, in the month of June. The shepherds see 

 birds about pretty regularly, and Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson 

 tells me that he has often had specimens sent him in 

 breeding-time, while the same localit}^ is mentioned 

 also by the Eev. J. D. Banister as frequented by this 

 Harrier. Elsewhere I have no record of its breeding, 

 but Byerley says it has been shot in many places near 

 Liverpool, and Mr. J. F. Brockholes writes {Proc. 

 Liverpool Lit. and Phil. Soc, 1859-61) that a kind of 

 Harrier may be often met with, which the keepers call 

 the Blue Hawk, and which he has never been able to 

 identif}^ but which I take to be this species. The Blue 

 Hawk is known, too, by the fowlers of Martin Mere ; 

 and an immature male of the Hen-Harrier which was 

 accompanied by a female, was, as I am informed by Mr. 

 R. J. Howard, shot about twenty years ago at Piulford 

 by Henry Caunce, and is still in his possession. Dr. 

 Skaife (Mag. Nat. Hist., 1838) considered it very rare 

 then, but mentions his having a specimen of the male, 

 which was shot near Lancaster. Mr. H. Kerr says that 

 it has been shot on passage in the Rossendale district, 

 and in autumn Mr. Standen is accustomed occasionally 

 to see it hawking over the stubbles near Goosnargh. 



MONTAGU'S HAREIEPt. 



Circus cineraceus (Montagu). 



Mr. W. A. Durnford writes {ZooL, 1876) that one, 

 shot on Walney in the autumn of 1874, is in his posses- 

 sion, and this is the onl}- occurrence I find recorded. 

 [Mr. R. J. Howard writes :— " 15th June, 1889.— 



