in Great Britain during the Nesting-season. 13 



found in BanfiFshire ; and in confii-mation of this statement it 

 may be added that Mr. Edward has this season (1864) seen 

 three young, which were taken by a boy from a nest in a wood 

 about six miles from Banff. 



Pernis APivoRUS {Cuv.). Honey Buzzard. 



Provinces II. III. IV. V. XI. XII.? XV.? 



Subprovinces 5, 9, 12, 14, 15, 24, 25 ?, 30? 



Lat. 50°-56° or 58°. "English" type. Not in Ireland. 



This bird is well known to build occasionally in the New 

 Forest, Hampshire. A nest, found at Selborne in 1780, is re- 

 corded by White. 



The nest has also been taken in Oxfordshire {Rev. A. Mat- 

 thews). At Burnham Beeches, Berks {Mr. Blyth, in Charles- 

 worth's Mag. of Nat. Hist. i. p. 539). In Northamptonshire, twice 

 within the last ten years {Lord Lilford) . Formerly in Warwick- 

 shire {Mr. R. F. Tomes). Stafford (Zoologist, p. 5097). Shrop- 

 shire (Mr. iJ. /SAaif;). Northumberland (Mr. J. iJancocA:). In 

 Cumberland, Mr. Heysham was informed that it bred in the 

 woods at Lowther ; and in Macgillivray's ' British Birds ' (iii. 

 p. 261) mention is made of a nest taken by Mr. J. M. Brown in 

 the woods of Abergeldie, in Aberdeenshire. 



Circus ^ruginosus {Sav.). Marsh Harrier. 



Provinces I. II. [III.] IV. V. [VI.] VII. [VIII.] [X.] XI. 



[XII.] [XIV.] XV. XVIII. ? 

 Subprovinces 1-5, (7), (10), 11, (12), 15, (17), 18, (19), (23), 



24, (25), (28), 30, 31, 37? 

 Lat. 50°-58° or 60°. " British" type, or general. 



Once frequent, now nearly exterminated ; but still breeds oc- 

 casionally in a few English counties. Much rarer in Scotland, 

 where the nest has been found only in Haddington {Mr. A. 

 Hepburn), in Perthshire {Mr. A. Pullar and Mr. J. Lamb), 

 in Aberdeen and Banff {Mr. T. Edward), and in Orkney {Mr. 

 J. Dunn). From its scarcity in Scotland, the distribution of 

 this species approaches to the English or southei'n type. 



