ACCIPITKES. ( 305 ) FALCONIDAi. 



THE ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 



ROUGH-LEGGED FALCON. 



Buteo lagopiis. 



The monarch bird, with blyfheuess hard 

 The chaicTiting litil silvan bard, 

 Calit up a Bitzart, quha was then 

 His favorite and chat?!berlane. 



Ramsay, Eagle aiid Robin. 



The Eough-Legged Buzzard sometimes visits Berwickshire 

 in the autumn and winter months, when it is on migration 

 from the north of Europe. 



Writing in 1875, Mr. Kelly says: — "Twenty years ago 

 Mr. Simson, Lauder, added this bird to his collection. It 

 was caught, he tells me, by the shepherd of Huntington, 

 who, while engaged one day looking over the fields, came 

 suddenly upon it eating a Eabbit. At his approach the 

 bird moved off slowly and, as he thonght, reluctantly, from 

 the half-finished meal to a neighbouring wood. This 

 hesitation encouraged him to set a trap and wait for the 

 result, which he had not long to do, for, in a short time, the 

 marauder returned and was caught." ^ Ten years later a 

 second specimen was captured near Lauder in a similar 

 way by a rabbit-catcher; and, on the 13th of February 

 1877, another was trapped by Lord Lauderdale's gamekeeper 

 in a field near Edgarshope." 



1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. vii. p. 301,302. 



2 md. vol. vii. p. 302, 



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