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water’s edge rose as the boat approached, they got up rather 
hurriedly to some little height and then turned and swooped down 
gradually, after the manner of gallinaceous birds. About the 
meaning of the Spanish name Abutarda, Ford, in his ‘ Hand-book ’ 
says “it is probably Iberian; the Romans catching at sound, not 
sense, called them aves tardas (quasi siow birds), which no one who 
has ever seen them fly or run, as we have, would do.” A Spanish 
sportsman, of Seville, formed me that two or three months before, 
. they might have been shot in plenty (off their nests I suppose), 
perhaps they are slow then. However, the engineer of the steamer, 
an Irishman, assured me that Abutarda in modern Spanish means 
“* slow bird, * and he told me the name of some other bird beginning 
with abu! , which he also explained, but this meaning in the Latinized 
state of the language may easily have been superinduced. But I 
must not occupy your room any further, than to say that I have 
duplicates of the eggs of the Little Bustard, Bee-eater, Pratincole, 
and Stilt Plover, which I should be happy to exchange with any 
of your correspondents for eggs of British Birds of equal rarity 
which may happen to be desiderata to my cabinet. These I brought 
with me from Barbary. 
Trinity College, Cambridge. 
Mar 
OccURRENCE OF THE RoOUGH-LEGGED BuzzarRD IN 
NorriNGHAMSHIRE AND DERBYSHIRE. 
[‘ Zoologist,’ iv. (1846) p. 1247. | 
Six or seven years ago, there was a great immigration * of the Rough- 
legged Buzzard, Buteo lagopus, to the midland-counties, which I have 
not scen recorded, Many specimens were killed at intervals in 
Nottirighamshire and Derbyshire, and happened to come under my 
notice. I think T could not have seen less than a dozen, only two 
of which came into my possession. Most of these were caught in 
traps, and some I saw before they received the coup de grice, the 
projecting eye-brow and piercing eye gave them a very fierce and 
noble expression. , 
Trinity College, Cambridge, 
November 21st, 1844. 
* [Mr. Howard Saunders suggests to me that this may have been Adubilla, 
the Hoopoe ( Upupa epops), but. nae name does not seem to be of Latin origin. 
The dictionaries give Abucdsta, the Wigeon (Anas penelope), which appears more 
likely, though I do not find it ‘acknowledged by Senor Arévalo in his ‘ Aves de 
Hispana’ (Madrid : 1887 ).—Ep. | 
* [This great visitation was in the autumn of 1859, and was especially observed 
in the eastern counties (cf. Zool, 1846, p. 130),—Ep. it 
