ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 129 
A pair of Buzzards, probably the birds alluded to by 
Brockholes, were observed in the neighbourhood of 
Neston in September 1865. The late C. S. Gregson 
shot one about this time on Moel Fammau, North 
Wales, which he believed to be one of this pair;! 
but as the species is not uncommon in the counties 
of Denbigh and Flint, even at the present time, his 
conclusion hardly appears to be warranted. 
Three examples are in existence, which were obtained 
on the Eaton Estate: two in the possession of Mr. H. 
Garland,? and one, killed in 1891, in the Grosvenor 
Museum, Chester. Another specimen in the same 
collection was shot at Thornton-le-Moors on October 
27th, 1890. 
We only know of one occurrence of the Buzzard on 
the Cheshire Plain within recent years. In the Vernon 
Museum, Stockport, there is a bird labelled—‘ Shot on 
Lindow Common by J. Thorniley.’ 
Mr. B. R. S. Pemberton tells us that a Buzzard was 
shot in Taxal Wood near Whaley Bridge in 1895. 
ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 
BuTeEo Lacopus (J. F. Gmelin). 
The Rough-legged Buzzard, which has been obtained 
several times in Cheshire on the autumn migration, is 
met with more frequently than the Common Buzzard. 
One was captured in a farmyard near Appleton on 
November 24th, 1865.1! A gamekeeper shot another at 
Lymm on November 4th, 1880, and in the following 
year Mr. A. Cookson killed one at Oakmere, which is 
1H. E. Smith, op. cit. p. 236. 2 Dobie, op. cit. p. 313. 
3 T. Davies, Field, vol. lvi. p.715. 1880. 
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