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called home quicker than I expected, as I was 

 on a tour visiting gamekeepers, I brought the 

 bird home ; you are welcome to it. The Buzzard 

 was killed on Mr. Sheridan's estate at Frampton 

 and passed to Mr. Norman, one of his keepers ; 

 the bird was entangled in thorns and murdered 

 with a bill hook." 



(61) Accipiter nisus and Falco tinnunculus. (63). 



Throughout the year a very satisfactory increase 

 in the number of these was observed at Poole. 

 We noted that a Sparrow Hawk was still using 

 the same tree for meals that he used last year. 

 (W.P.C. and E.H.C.) 



Accipiter nisus. Sparrow Hawk. 



Apr. 15 This bird seems to like feeding in a slightly open 

 place amongst dark pines ; such places are usually 

 afforded at Canford by the lower limbs of 

 straggling oak trees planted among pines. The 

 darkness appears to kill the lower boughs of the 

 oaks, which, being bare, make convenient 

 " butcher's blocks " for Sparrow Hawks. Close 

 to Broadstone the lower limbs of an oak so 

 situate were thick with feathers of small 

 passerines ; and I found the remains of a Song 

 Thrush and of a Chaffinch. (E.H.C.) 



May 14 At Canford Bottom. Dr. Penrose, W.P.C., and 

 E.H.C. saw male take the same course through 

 a small wood on two occasions. After noting 

 course all three took up different positions to 

 watch. E.H.C. saw male enter and then heard 

 a little fluster in a pine tree. Dr. P. then 

 whistled for E.H.C., who fetched W.P.C. and 

 joined Dr. P. Dr. P. saw female come out of the 

 trees, make a stoop at the male, after which 



