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having fed on the eggs of small birds, was shot 

 near Harraby, Carlisle, by Mr. W. Hodgkinson. 

 {J. B. Hodgkinson, MS.) Another was obtained 

 some years since at Edenhall, and this is an adult 

 male. Mr. John Hancock informs us that the two 

 young birds referred to in Mr, More's Essay on the 

 Distribution of Birds in Great Britain during the 

 breeding season, as " bred in Cumberland," were 

 killed at Wolsingham Park, Durham. 



Genus B U T E O. 



B. Vulgaris. Buzzard. 



The Buzzard is a local resident, about twelve pairs 

 (1885) attempting to breed among the mountains of 

 the Cumbrian lakes, where the circling flight of this 

 species, as it soars round and round at a great 

 height, may be observed. When foraging, the 

 Buzzard sweeps slowly up and down its favourite 

 valleys. Two pairs also nest, if permitted, on the 

 Pennine range. At the present time the Buzzard 

 chiefly nests with us upon ledges of rock, but the 

 late James Cooper harried a nest which was placed 

 in a tall oak tree in Barron Wood. More recently 

 Dr. Parker has recorded a nest built into a thorn 

 bush : " Two Buzzards have for the last three or four 

 years constantly haunted Blengdale, a small valley 

 close to the village of Gosforth. There are no crags 

 on the sides of the valley, and only some half-dozen 

 trees in it ; so the birds, rather than quit their 

 accustomed haunts, built their nest in a common 

 thorn bush about eight feet from the ground. 

 Hearing of this unusual nesting place, I went to 



