12 Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 
Burro vuxearis (Bechst.). Common Buzzard. 
Provinces I.—VIIT. X.-X VII. 
Subprovinces 2-8, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17-20, 22-25, 26-85. 
Lat. 50°-59°.  “ British” type, or general. 
By no means common, and nearly exterminated in the eastern 
and midland counties of England. Still breeds regularly in 
several parts of the west and north of England and in Scotland, 
where it has a better chance of escaping the vigilance of the 
gamekeeper. 
ARCHIBUTEO LAGoPUS (G. R. Gray). Rough-legged Buzzard. 
Provinces [X.] XV. 
Subprovinces (22), 31. 
Lat. 54°-58°. “Scottish” type. Not in Ireland. 
A single pair bred for several years in succession at Hackness, 
where they appeared as summer visitors. 
Mr. Alwin S. Bell, of Scarborough, has kindly furnished the 
following particulars :—“ Mr, John Smith, who was gamekeeper 
for twenty years on the estate of Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, remem- 
bers the Rough-legged Buzzards perfectly well: there was no 
mistake as to the species, as they were feathered right down to 
the toe-ends. They used to breed, year after year, on the ground, 
amongst the heather, in the moor-dells near Ash Hay Gill, 
Whisperdale, about three miles from Hackness. One pair only 
bred every year during most of the time that Mr. Smith was 
keeper (twenty-four years ago). They were not seen except in 
the breeding-season. Mr. Smith has himself shot them from the 
vest, and remembers that they sometimes had young.” 
Mr. Williamson, the Curator of the Museum at Scarborough, 
confirms this statement, and remembers a male Rough-legged 
Buzzard being trapped by the keeper and brought alive to 
Scarborough. This bird escaped; but soon afterwards its mate 
was shot ; and in the following spring the same male returned, 
with another partner, when both were taken, and on the male was 
found distinctly the mark inflicted by the trap. 
Mr. Thomas Edward, in his account of the Birds of Banffshire 
(Zoologist, 1856, p. 5201), writes that the nest has been rarely 
