46 HONEY BUZZARD. 
young male birds shot on the 26th. of August, near Hexham. 
These five last were procured in the year 1841. The parents 
of the latter two were also frequently seen. One near Twizel; 
one at Cheswick, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. In Sussex, A. 
i. Knox, Ksq., in his pleasant ‘Ornithological Rambles,’ says 
that though rare, a few specimens have been met with—one 
in Charlton Forest; one or two near Arundel; one shot in 
September, in the year 1845, on Poynings Common; another 
obtained in the autumn of 1841, between Henfield and 
Horsham; and another shot in the forest of St. Leonard, 
by the gamekeeper of — Aldridge, Esq. Others in Norfolk, 
Dorsetshire, Devonshire, and Worcestershire, and, though very 
rarely, in Cumberland, where it has been said to have bred 
in the woods near Lowther. One was taken, and one shot 
near Yarmouth, in the county of Norfolk, in September, 
1841; another at Honingham; one at Gawdy Hall Wood, 
near Harleston; and one at Horning, in 1841, in the same 
county. One in Kent, in the parish of Lydd; a few others’ 
near Tunbridge Wells; two pairs in Warwickshire, near 
Stoneleigh Abbey, and one in Suffolk. In Oxfordshire, a few 
have been recorded by my friend, (if after the lapse of so 
many years, ‘eheu fugaces,’ I may still call him so,) the 
Rev. A. Matthews, of Weston-on-the-Green. One of them he 
describes as having been taken in the following singular 
manner:—It had forced its head into a hole in the ground, 
probably in search of a wasp’s nest, and becoming by some 
means entangled, was captured by a countryman before it 
could extricate itself. 
In Scotland, three or four in Berwickshire, one of them 
about the month of June, 1845. 
The Honey Buzzard frequents woods, and especially those 
in which water is to be met with. 
The flight of this bird is, like that which is characteristic 
of others of the smaller species of the Hawk kind, silent and 
swift, a gliding through the air without apparent effort, and 
for the most part low. It flies generally for only a short 
distance, from tree to tree. When on the ground, it has been 
noticed by several authors, to run with great rapidity, some- 
what in the way that a pheasant does. It often remains for 
hours together, on some solitary tree from which a good look 
out can be kept, and at such times has been observed to erect 
the teathers of the head into a sort of crest, indicative, perhaps, 
either of attention or sleep. 
