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years since, and that it is nesting in two or three 

 localities in the county. 



14. ARCHIBUTEO LAGOPUS (LinnaPAis) . Rough- 

 legged Buzzard. 



Occasionally met with, but more frequently in the 

 autumn and winter, and then usually in immature 

 plumage. Formerly nested year by year on the 

 ground amongst heather, in the moor-dells, near Ash 

 Hay Gill, about three miles from Hackness, near 

 Scarborough*". 



Mr. Boulton has had several specimens captured 

 in Holderness ; one of these, shot near the river Hull, 

 and others at Spurn were particularly fine examples. 

 One which I saw in the winter of 1867-68 was shot 

 by some fishermen, whose boat was aground on the 

 Yorkshire coast, near Hornsea, whilst devouring a 

 bird, and brought into Grimsby along with its prey, 

 a dusky Grebe. 



15. PERNIS APIVORUS (Linnaeus). Honey-Buzzard. 



Nests, as Mr. Boulton says, amid the woody mar- 

 gins of the "mere" at Hornsea. He has received 

 several, shot in the neighbourhood of Beverley during 

 the last few years. One in his collection, shot in 

 that neighbourhood, September 26th, 1864, had the 



* See a paper in the Ibis ' for 1865, p. 12, by Mr. A. G. More, 

 "On the distribution of Birds in Great Britain during- the 

 nesting-season." 



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