128 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
ceding species, it is now only known as a rare wanderer 
to the county. 
Early in November 1886, one was shot on the moors 
at Wildboarclough near Macclesfield. Mr. Howard 
Saunders, to whom the bird was submitted, pronounced 
it to be a young female. In the first week of the same 
month in 1897, a female was shot at Saughall near 
Chester, after it had frequented the neighbourhood for 
several days. Brockholes stated that he had occasionally 
seen a Harrier on Bidston Marsh, which he believed to 
be of this species.” 
MONTAGU’S HARRIER. 
CIRCUS CINERACEUS (Montagu). 
[Byerley’s bald statement, made on the authority of 
Mather, a Liverpool taxidermist, that a Montagu’s 
Harrier was obtained on Bidston Marsh,® is hardly 
evidence enough to justify the inclusion of the bird in 
the county list.] 
COMMON BUZZARD, 
BUTEO VULGARIS, Leach. 
A few pairs of Common Buzzards still breed in the 
more secluded districts of the mountains of North 
Wales, and occasionally birds are met with on the 
Cheshire side of the border and in Wirral. Brock- 
holes, writing in 1874, states that seven or eight years 
previously one was shot at Puddington, and that two 
others frequented the Dee Marshes the same autumn.? 
1 A. N. Curzon, Field, vol. xviii. p. 884. 1886. 
2 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 4. 3 Byerley, op. cit. p. 10. 
