APPENDIX. 



THE AMERICAN GOSHAWK. 



ASTUR ATRICAPILLUS. 

 Page 39. 



Having ventured the surmise that this species might occur a 

 second and even a third time in Britain, I may here state that such 

 has actually happened since this work was sent to press. The second 

 example was shot on the Galtee mountains in Tipperary in 1870, 

 and is now in the collection of Sir Victor Brooke; and the third 

 was killed at Parsontown, in the King's county, by Mr Basil 

 Brooke in 1870. 



THE HONEY BUZZARD. 



PERN IS APIVORUS. 

 Page 48. 



Mr Harvie Brown has informed me that a nest of eggs of this 

 species has been procured this year (1871) by himself and Captain 

 Feilden in Ross-shire. The nest was placed in the fork of a tree, 

 and lined with wasps' nests: it was about the size of a rook's, and 

 both birds were seen flying overhead. This pair of birds, it appears, 

 bred regularly in the district for the last six years, and they have 

 usually taken their departure about the middle of September. 



THE HEN HARRIER. 



CIRCUS CYANEUS. 

 Page 52. 



Mr James Thomson of the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, has 

 shown me a pair (m. and f.) of this species from Sutherlandshire 

 which have just begun the assumption of the adult plumage. 



