14 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



from either Island, nor have I seen the bird 

 about alive in either. There is one specimen in 

 the Museum. 



10. COMMON BUZZARD. Buteo vulgaris, Leach. 

 French, "Buse." The Buzzard is a tolerably 

 regular, and by no means uncommon, autumnal 

 visitant, specimens occurring from some of the 

 Islands almost every autumn. But it is, I believe, 

 an autumnal visitant only, as I do not know of a 

 single specimen taken at any other time of year, 

 nor can I find a record of one. I have seen examples 

 in the flesh from both Alderney and Herm, in both 

 of which Islands it occurs at least as frequently as 

 it does in Guernsey, though still only as an autumnal 

 visitant. 



It is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only 

 marked as occurring in Guernsey, and there is one 

 specimen in the Museum. 



11. KOUGHLEGGED BUZZARD. Buteo lagopus, Gmelin. 

 French, " Archibuse pattue " or "Buse pattue." 

 Though its visits seem not so absolutely confined to 

 the autumn as the Common Buzzard, the Kough- 

 legged Buzzard is a much more uncommon visitant 

 to the Channel Islands, and can only be looked upon 

 as a rare occasional straggler. Mr. MacCulloch 

 informs me that one was killed near L'Hyvreuse, 

 which is perhaps now more commonly known as the 



