130 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



Weld, it at one time was occasionally to be seen in 

 Wyresdale, and on the Bleasdale Fells, but is rarely met 

 .with now. In 1868, Mr. R. Standen saw a male bird 

 which had been shot near Inglewhite in September of 

 that 3^ear, and Mr. J. Clayton Chorlton writes me that 

 about 1876 a specimen was shot in the neighbourhood 

 of Manchester.* 



GENUS PEENIS. 



HONEY-BUZZARD. 



Pernis apivorus (Limifeus). 



Byerley writes of the Honey-Buzzard : "a dozen at 

 least from about the district of St. Helen's, Aintree 

 race-ground, and elsewhere (Mather), Rainford, 1835." 

 No other localities have been so favoured, and the 

 remaining occurrences, which appear to have all been 

 so far as is known in autumn, are very few. Mr. 

 R. Davenport says one was killed in 1852 on Lostock 

 flats by R. Shaw, and in September of the same year, 

 according to Mr. Henry Whalley, one was shot near 

 Colne. About 1860 one was obtained near Burnley by 

 a keeper in the employ of General Scarlett, and a cor- 

 respondent of the Field writes (November 10th, 1866) 

 that he shot a fine specimen while out Grouse-driving 

 on Blackstone Edge on the 8th of October. 



* In the Field of June 22nd, 1861, the late F. T. Buckland wrote 

 that at a sale of the Macclesfield Museum on Jime 14th, a Swallow- 

 tailed Ivite, said to have been shot on the Mersey in June 1843, 

 fetched £9 10s. [If by this the American Elano'ides furcatus is 

 meant, there is no evidence that the bird was obtained in a wild 

 state, but it may have been brought over in a ship. — Ed.] 



