COMMON BUZZARD. 3 1 



regretted the absence of this bird from Walton Park, and said, " In 

 181 3 I had my last sight of the Buzzard." 



As a partial migrant the Buzzard is most frequently met with 

 in the autumn, and although it has been observed in most parts of 

 the county, especially near the coast, it is far from usual in its 

 occurrence, more particularly during the last few years. Mr. W. 

 W. Boulton of Beverley tells me that it is now more rare than its 

 congeners the Rough-legged and the Honey Buzzards, and this 

 really appears to be the case ; for a similar remark is made by 

 Mr. Joseph Lucas in his remarks on the Rough-legged species. 

 Mr. Thomas Lister of Barnsley remarks on one shot near Barnsley 

 in 1876, that it had not been observed in that district for forty 

 years. 



Dr. Farrar mentioned one killed in Woolley Park in November 

 1834; in 1840 Mr. H. Denny of Leeds cited it as rather rare at 

 Halifax and North Deighton ; Mr. Heppenstall of Sheffield in 

 1843 recorded it as formerly common but then quite rare; Mr. 

 Thomas Allis mentioned it as frequent near Doncaster, Huddersfield 

 and Sheffield ; a male was shot at Bilham near Doncaster, Sept. 

 1846 (Mr. W. Talbot); I am informed by Captain E. H. Turton, 

 that one was shot on Roxby Moor in Cleveland in the year 1847 ; 

 and another at Cowesby nearThirsk; in 1856 Mr. H. Smurthwaite 

 of Richmond reported it to be still not uncommon in some parts 

 of Yorkshire; one was killed at upper Helmsley in i860; at 

 Fryup in Cleveland one was shot in 1864; Mr. James Aspdin 

 recorded an old male shot near Hawes in January 1865 ; and Mr. 

 Joseph Lucas stated that " Buzzards are occasionally seen on the 

 Nidderdale Moors. At Christmas 1868, Mr. Yorke's keepers 

 trapped a Common Buzzard on Gouthwaite Moor." Mr. R. 

 Richardson of Beverley informs me of a female shot at Bishop 

 Burton on the 3rd of December, 1868, and another female, 

 shot at Kipling Cotes on the 17th September, 1869; on 

 September the i8th, 1869, one was shot at Market Weighton; one 

 was seen on Moscar Moor on the 22nd of October, 1869 ; on the 

 2 1 st of February, 1870, a female was shot near Cocklington ; in 



