4 1 o A lexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



Mr. Alwin S. Bell, of Scarborough, has kindly furnished the 

 following particulars : " Mr. John Smith, who was gamekeeper for 

 twenty years on the estate of Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, remembers the 

 Rough-legged Buzzards perfectly well : there was no mistake as to the 

 species, as they were feathered right down to the toe-ends. They used 

 to breed, year after year, on the ground, amongst the heather, in the 

 moor-dells near Ash Hay Gill, Whisperdale, about three miles from 

 Hackness. One pair only bred every year during most of the time that 

 Mr. Smith was keeper (twenty-four years ago). They were not seen 

 except in the breeding season. Mr. Smith has himself shot them from 

 the nest, and remembers that they sometimes had young." 



Mr. Williamson, the Curator of the Museum at Scarborough, con- 

 firms this statement, and remembers a male Rough -legged Buzzard 

 being trapped by the keeper and brought alive to Scarborough. This 

 bird escaped ; but soon afterwards its mate was shot ; and in the 

 following spring the same male returned, with another partner, when 

 both were taken, and on the male was found distinctly the mark 

 inflicted by the trap. 



Mr. Thomas Edward, in his account of the Birds of Banffshire 

 (Zoologist, 1856, p. 5201), writes that the nest has been rarely found in 

 Banffshire ; and in confirmation of this statement it may be added that 

 Mr. Edward has this season (1864) seen three young, which were taken 

 by a boy from a nest in a wood about six miles from Banff. 



PERNIS APIVORUS (Cuv.}. Honey Buzzard. 



Provinces II. III. IV. V. XI. XII. ? XV. ? 

 Subprovinces 5, 9, 12, 14, 15, 24, 25 ?, 30 ? 

 Lat. 50-56 or 58. " English ' ' type. Not in Ireland. 



This bird is well known to build occasionally in the New Forest, 

 Hampshire. A nest, found at Selborne in 1780, is recorded by White. 



The nest has also been taken in Oxfordshire (Rev. A. Matthews}. 

 At Burnham Beeches, Berks (Mr. Blyth, in Charlesworth's Mag. of 

 Nat. Hist. i. p. 539). In Northamptonshire, twice within the last ten 

 years (Lord Lilford}. Formerly in Warwickshire (Mr. R. F. Tomes}. 

 Stafford ('Zoologist,' p. 5097). Shropshire (Mr. H. Shaw}. Northum- 

 berland (Mr. J. Hancock}. In Cumberland, Mr. Heysham was 

 informed that it bred in the woods at Lowther ; and in Macgillivray's 

 'British Birds' (iii. p. 261) mention is made of a nest taken by 

 Mr. J. M. Brown in the woods of Abergeldie, in Aberdeenshire. 



CIRCUS ^ERUGINOSUS (Sav.}. Marsh Harrier. 



Provinces I. II. [III.] IV. V. [VI.] VII. [VIII.] [X.] XI. [XII.] [XIV.] 



XV. XVIII. ? 

 Subprovinces 1-5, (7), (10), n, (12), 15, (17), 18, (19), (23), 24, (25), (28), 



30,31,37? 

 Lat. 50-58 or 60. " British " type, or general. 



