14 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



from either Island, nor have I seen the bird 

 about ahve in either. There is one specimen in 

 the Museum. 



10. Common Buzzard. Buteo vulgaris, Leach. 

 French, "Buse." — The Buzzard is a tolerably 

 regular, and by no means uncommon, autumnal 

 visitant, specimens occmTing from some of the 

 Islands ahnost every autumn. But it is, I believe, 

 an autumnal visitant only, as I do not know of a 

 single specimen taken at any other time of year, 

 nor can I find a record of one. I have seen examples 

 in the flesh from both Alderney and Herm, in both 

 of which Islands it occm's at least as frequently as 

 it does in Guernsey, though still only as an autumnal 

 visitant. 



It is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only 

 marked as occmTing in Guernsey, and there is one 

 specimen in the Museum. 



11. EouGHLEGGED BuzzARD. Buteo Icigopus, Gmelin. 

 French, " Archibuse pattue " or "Buse pattue." — 

 Though its visits seem not so absolutely confined to 

 the autumn as the Common Buzzard, the Eough- 

 legged Buzzard is a much more uncommon visitant 

 to the Channel Islands, and can only be looked upon 

 as a rare occasional straggler. Mr. MacCulloch 

 informs me that one was killed near L'Hj^vreuse, 

 which is perhaps now more commonly kno"\^ai as the 



