dence that time and place of the only English occurrences 
so nearly adhered. My eggs taken in Pomerania, April 
4, 1878, are slightly larger than my eggs of Nevia; and 
are well described as, small Golden Eagle’s Eggs. 
THE RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 
(ButTeo LINEATUS.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Noticed by Newton. 
Noticed by Seebohm. 
Professor Newton says ‘Buteo lineatus’ the Red-should- 
ered Buzzard is recorded (Ibis, 1865) as having once 
occurred in Scotland. 
Mr. Seebohm speaking of Lineatus, Borealis, and De- 
sertorum, says there is no evidence to shew that these birds 
had not escaped from confinement, nor is it certain that © 
the identification was correct. 
This bird is said by Brewer to be a resident through- 
out the United States, except where it is replaced by the 
Red-bellied Hawk, (Buteo lineatus elegans) It is abun- 
dant in California, South Carolina, and Florida; it was 
not met with in the Arctic regions by Sir John Richard- 
son, latitude 50° being probably its northernmost limit; 
Lieutenant Bland, in his list of the birds of Nova Scotia, 
speaks of it as common in, and migrating to that pro- 
vince. In the immature form it is the ‘ Falco hyemalis’ 
of Gmelin, Wilson, Bonaparte, and Audubon. The eggs 
are very handsome, and very like those of the Common 
Buzzard ; my own clutch were taken June 4, 1882, but I 
prefer to give the dimensions as quoted by Davie in his 
Check list of N.A- birds, 2.20 by 1.75 inches; the nest is 
placed in lofty trees, and a clutch is three or four. 
