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first week of September 1888 a Buzzard haunted the 

 park and pleasure-grounds at Lilford for several days. 

 A Buzzard, that had been haunting our woodlands for 

 some weeks previously, was killed by one of Lady 

 Cardigan's gamekeepers about the end of December 

 1888, and allowed to rot. The Rev. Henry H. Slater, 

 of Irchester Vicarage, informed me that he saw a 

 passage of four Buzzards together, in that neighbour- 

 hood, on September 26, 1892. 



11. ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 



Buteo lagopus. 



This is a species with which I have very little 

 personal acquaintance, except in captivity, having 

 only occasionally seen one on the wing in the open 

 country of West Norfolk and Suffolk during the 

 winter months, and never having visited its breeding- 

 haunts in the north of Europe. In England the 

 Rough-legged Buzzard occurs usually as an autumnal 

 or winter visitor, and on our north-eastern and eastern 

 coasts can hardly be considered rare. In this county 

 I know of three instances of the occurrence of this 

 bird ; but have little doubt that it has been met 

 with frequently, and not recorded. Mr. George 

 Bannerman, writing in * The Field ' of February 12th 

 1876, mentions the death of one of these birds near 

 Brackley in the previous December. I have recorded 

 the capture of another at Thrapston, in November 

 1875, in the same newspaper of February 19th, 1876, 

 and a large bird of prey, which (as I was laid up at 



