112 Field Notes. 



and the bird died of exhaustion in the hole. It is noteworthy 

 that the bird in its struggles to get free must always have 



turned one way. thus giving the veil such a " hard twist," that 

 it resembled string. 



After the post-mortem, the body was decently interred in 

 the Cart Wright Museum. Bradford. — R. Fortune, Harrogate. 



Honey Buzzard in Northumberland. — Whilst rambling in 

 Whittle Dene, Ovingham-on-Tyne, with a friend on Sept. 25th, 

 1908, we found a large bird, still alive, but in a feeble condition. 

 It died after being removed to our house. After skinning 

 and setting it up, it was identified by the Hancock Museum 

 authorities at Newcastle, as a Honey Buzzard. The bird 

 had evidently been fasting, for it was very thin, and hardly 

 weighed much more than a pound. — Douc;las Clague, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



Naturalist. 



