1 66 THE BIRDS OF BERKS AND BUCKS. 



specimen was killed at Highclare, the seat of the Earl 

 of Carnarvon. 



I am indebted to the Rev. Bryant Burgess for the 

 notice of a Honey Buzzard which was captured in 

 1842, between Chesham and Missenden. A fine 

 Honey Buzzard was trapped in Windsor Forest by 

 a keeper in the year 1860. It was preserved by 

 Mr. Hasell of Windsor, at whose house I saw it some 

 time since. 



MONTAGU'S HARRIER (Circus Montagui}. A rare 

 species, named in honour of Colonel Montagu, who 

 first described the bird as the Ash-coloured Harrier. 

 The Rev. Harpur Crewe informed me that a speci- 

 men of this bird was killed some years since by Mr. 

 A. H. Jenney, in the parish of Dray ton Beauchamp, 

 in Buckinghamshire. It is now in the possession of 

 Sir J. H. Crewe. Mr. R. B. Sharpe sent me word 

 that a Harrier of this species was procured by a 

 gentleman of his acquaintance near Eton in the 

 summer of 1867, and is now in his collection. 



Family STRIGID^E. 



SCOPS -EARED OWL (Scops Aldrovandi}. Mr. 

 Morris states that a Scops-eared Owl was shot near 

 Brill, in Buckinghamshire, in the year 1833. In 1858 

 or 1859, a second specimen was found dead inside 

 a rotten turnip, which was lying in a field just 

 above Kingston Lisle Park, the seat of Mr. Martin 

 Atkins. The cause of its death can only be con- 



