144 BIRDS. 



In Mr. Irvine-Fortescue's collection are two most beautifully 

 marked Hen-Harrier's eggs, indeed they might well be passed 

 off as Buzzards'. 



Buteo vulgaris, Leach. Common Buzzard. 



In some notes by Mr. Moodie-Heddle's father, it is stated that a 

 large buzzard (species not mentioned), had been seen several 

 years at Melsetter, in October 1857, and again in 1860 and 

 1861. 



In an article by Capt. Clark-Kennedy on Wild Sport in the 

 Orkney Isles, in Baily's Magazine for April 1884, p. 162, that 

 gentleman mentions seeing a Common Buzzard feeding on some 

 dead animal, near Stromness. 



Buckley saw what he took to be one of this species in 

 Kousay, on November 2d, 1883, and Mr. Millais tells us he 

 noticed a Common Buzzard flying very high in a southerly 

 direction over Hoy, in August 1888. 



These are all the notices we could collect of this species, 

 showing how extremely rare the bird is here. 



Archibuteo lagopus (Gmel). Rough-legged Buzzard, 



Mr. E. Gray, in his Birds of the West of Scotland, p. 48, has this 

 paragraph : " In January 1866 a fine adult specimen was shot 

 in the island of Eaasay (sic), in Orkney." As there is no island 

 of this name there, Mr. Gray probably refers to Rousay. It 

 was at Trumbland House, the residence of Gen. Burroughs, in 

 that island that we saw two fine stuffed specimens of the 

 Rough-legged Buzzard, and were told that they had been shot 

 there, though we do not now remember the dates of their 

 capture. 



Buckley distinctly saw one in Rousay, on November 1st, 

 1883, hovering over the hill not far from Westness House. 



Aquila chrysaetus (L.). Golden Eagle. 



It is very improbable that the Golden Eagle was ever a common 

 species ; indeed, it is likely that it was always confined to the 



