34 CLARKE: THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



museum, Mr. x\lfred Roberts, to whom I have been much 

 indebted for information during the progress of this work, and 

 wlio repUed to my inquiries that the birds had not been known 

 to breed since the date of Mr. WiUiamson's record. 



During the autumn, winter and spring this species has 

 occurred at one time or another in all parts of the county, being 

 especially numerous in the vicinity of the coast. The recorded 

 and communicated instances of its occurrence are so very 

 numerous and the bird being regarded as an annual visitant 

 an enumeration of the localities is quite unnecessary. 



PERNIS APIYORUS (L.) 

 Honey Buzzard. 



An uncommon spring and autumn migrant. 



Mr. Hancock in his catalogue of birds of Northumberland 

 and Durham considers this to be one of the commonest larger 

 birds of prey, whilst Mr. Cordeaux in his Birds of the Humber 

 District says he has not met with a Lincolnshire-killed specimen. 

 In Yorkshire it has been frequently recorded in the eastern portion 

 of the comity in the spring and autumn, when on its migratory 

 course. 



It has no doubt bred in the county, for Dr. Farrar 

 informed Mr. Allis that a pair fixed their quarters in 

 Wharncliffe Wood in 1833, one of them being shot; and Mr. 

 W. W. Boulton of Beverley, in a letter to me, speaking of two 

 young birds that formerly constituted part of his fine collection, 

 says, " I am morally certain they were bred there. The extremely 

 immature plumage of the young birds — besides the fact that 

 others were seen by the keeper who sent me mine — attest the 

 truth of my supposition. From what the keeper told me, I have 

 not the slightest doubt the birds were bred amid the wooded 

 margins of the Hornsea mere." 



Trans. Y.N.U., 187S (pub. 1880). Serie":; B 



