8 THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 



visitor. When the first edition of "Yarrell" was 

 published, the Kite was numerous in the northern 

 counties, and even bred in Huntingdonshire, where 

 it is now extinct. It survives, however, in several 

 districts of Scotland, and in parts of Wales. Pul- 

 teney speaks of it as common in his time, and the 

 late Mr. J. C. Dale remarked that it was formerly 

 plentiful in the Grange Woods, Middlemarsh. One 

 shot at Bryanston is in Viscount Portman's collec- 

 tion ; another was shot at Rempston ; a third, 

 procured in the neighbourhood of Dorchester, was 

 presented to the County Museum by the late Mr. 

 C. Herring ; a fourth was shot at Bexington, near 

 Abbotsbury (Rev. R. B. Roe) ; while the last on 

 record was killed at Ashley, near Puncknoll, in 

 April 1 88 1. 



COMMON BUZZAKD. Buteo vulgaris, Leach. 



Yarrell, i. p. 109; Harting, p. 6; Dresser, v. p. 449; Seebohm, 

 i. p. 117; Ibis List, p. 94 ; Falco buteo, Pulteney's List, p. 3. 



The Common Buzzard is the most frequently seen 

 of all the larger hawks ; generally birds of the year 

 from the Continent on migration. When hunting, it 

 usually flies sluggishly near the ground, but rises to a 

 great height spirally, careering aloft in wide circles. 

 One was shot at Encombe in 1866, two at Kim- 

 meridge in 1867, an d a fourth at Peverel Point, 

 Swanage, in 1866. Specimens are in the Bryanston 

 and Rempston collections, as well as in the County 

 Museum. When riding over " Bere Field " in Octo- 



