8 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



that it has not occurred there for the last ten years, 

 although formerly found near Beverley. He has seen 

 a stuffed specimen, shot in that neighbourhood some 

 years since *. 



13. BUTEO VULGARIS, Leach. Common Buzzard. 



Partially migratory. Occurring occasionally, usu- 

 ally in the spring and autumn ; breeds in the county. 

 Mr. Adrian, of Lincoln, took one nest in the season 

 of 1869 containing three eggs. A mature bird in very 

 rich dark plumage was trapped by a gamekeeper in 

 this neighbourhood in the winter of 1867. One was 

 captured alive during the first week in November 

 1866, in the rigging of a vessel, in the dusk of the 

 evening, off Flamborough Head (Zoologist, s.s. p. 597). 

 A flight of five Buzzards, apparently of this species, 

 passed over this parish on the 14th of April, 1868. 

 They came from the direction of the sea (east), and 

 were travelling westward. I am strongly inclined to 

 think that the Buzzard is now of more common 

 occurrence in this district than was the case a few 



that they had been to the nest and taken out two eggs : one 

 got broken ; the other is the subject of this note." 



* Since the above was in type Mr. Adrian has informed me 

 that early in 1871 he received eggs of the Kite along with those 

 of the Common Buzzard, all unblown, from a person who had 

 obtained them in Bullington Wood, near Wragby. They were 

 taken in the spring of 1870, and had been kept nearly a year 

 laid by in a basket. 



