16 BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



BUZZARD, HONEY. 



Though never a numerous species in our islands, 

 this bird did at one time breed in several different 

 parts of the country. It is probable that the high 

 price set upon its eggs, and the senseless persecution 

 of the harmless parent birds, have almost, if not 

 quite, banished the Honey Buzzard from its last 

 stronghold viz. the New Forest. 



BUZZARD, ROUGH-LEGGED. 



This bird is said to have bred in both England 

 and Scotland, but as the instances are rare, and 

 the information concerning them scant, it can 

 claim but little attention in a work of this 

 character. 



BURROW DUCK. See SHELDRAKE. 



CAPERCAILLIE. 



Description of Parent Birds. Length varies 

 between thirty-three and forty inches. Bill short, 

 much curved, strong, and of a pale horn colour. 

 Irides hazel. Over each eye is a piece of naked 

 red skin. Head, neck, back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts brownish-black in ground colour, finely 

 freckled with ash-grey spots. Wings dark chest- 

 nut-brown, minutely speckled with dusky spots, 

 except quills, which are dusky. Where the shoulder 

 or point of the wing meets the body, is a little 

 patch of white ; the scapulars are also tipped with 

 the same colour. Tail rounded at the tip, the 

 feathers being dusky, spotted sparingly with light 



