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on one of a singularly piebald appearance that haunted 

 the woods and wastes near Gill Head in Cartmel Fell at 

 that time, and also that the stomach of one he once shot 

 was filled with earth-worms. During the winter months, 

 and especially in hard weather, the Buzzard often 

 descends to the vicinity of the coast, and at this season 

 it has several times been killed on Walney, and the 

 sand-hills between Liverpool and Southport. It has 

 also straggled occasionally further inland, and on these 

 occasions has been found to have been feeding principally 

 on mice and rabbits. 



["From November 1886 to March 1887 a Buzzard 

 frequented Billinge Hill, feeding chiefly on some slaughter- 

 house garbage spread as manure on a field near, and 

 roosting at night in the trees on the hill. I saw the 

 bird often : it was an interesting sight to watch him 

 wheeling about high over the factory chimneys. The 

 head-keeper, contrary to express orders, shot at the 

 Buzzard and broke a leg on 8th January 1887. For 

 some weeks afterwards I saw the leg hanging as the bird 

 flew, but it gradually recovered, and when I last saw the 

 bird on 24th March it seemed all right."— E. J. H.] 



GENUS AKCHIBUTEO. 



EOUGH-LEGGED BUZZAED. 



Archibuteo lagopus (J. F. Gmelin). 



An autumn migrant ; usually of rare occurrence, but 

 some years appearing in considerable numbers. In 

 1880, for instance, there were five specimens shot ; 

 more than I had found recorded for many years previous 

 altogether. They were as follows ; all, as far as I could 



