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Bankes writes that a female was killed in the same place 

 on Feb. 18th, 1885, and there is a specimen in the Devizes 

 Museum shot on the Hurdecott Estate (no date). 



Common Buzzard [Buteo b. buteo). — ^Mr. A. Bankes tells 

 me that a male was killed m Ridge Wood, Hindon, on 

 September 16, 1887. One was shot at Aldbourne in October, 

 1911, and there is a pair in the Devizes Museum from 

 Savernake (no date). 



White-tailed Eagle {Haliaetus alhicilla). — One was seen 

 at Salisbury on January 31st, 1897 {Salisbury Journal, 

 Feb. 6th, 1897). One w^as shot in G-rovely Wood in March, 

 1905 {Wilts County Mirror, May 3rd, 1905), and another 

 at Marden on February 24th, 1909 — ^now in the Devizes 

 Museum {Marlborough Times, March 6th, 1909, etc.). 



Montagu's Hakrier {Circus pygargus). — One was seen 

 near Braydon on October 28th, 1905 {W.A.dh N.H., XXXIV., 

 p. 434). In the Devizes Museum there is a case containing 

 a female and a young bird shot on the Hurdecott Estate 

 —no date (reported in W.A.dh N.H., XXXVI., p. 486, as a 

 male Marsh-Harrier) ; and another containing a male shot 

 near Winterslow, in 1858. 



Hen-Harrier {Circus cyaneus). — One was shot on Erchfont 

 Downs on Dec. 30th, 1879 {M.C.N. H.), and one was seen at 

 Downton on April 29th, 1912 {Bull. B.O.C., XXXII.). 



Kite {Milvus milvus). — ^A male was shot at Fonthill in 

 Nov., 1896 {Field, Nov. 28th, 1896), and there is a specimen 

 in the Blackmore Museum shot at Cholderton (no date). 



Honey-Buzzard [Pernis a. apivorus). — ^A specimen in 

 the Devizes Museum was shot in the West Woods near 

 Marlborough in 1885. This is supposed to be the specimen 

 recorded by Smith {Birds of Wiltshire, p. 91), but he gives 

 the date as 1855. 



Little Bittern {Ixobrychus minutus). — ^Mr. E. Cambridge 

 Phillips writes that " a male was killed at Whetham, near- 

 Calne, and until recently was in my brother's collection at 

 Chippenham." 



Bittern {Botaurus s. stellaris). — ^I have records of no less 

 than twenty-three, of which twenty are of later date than 

 Smith's book ; viz. five in 1892, one in 1897, seven in 1900, 

 three in 1902, one in 1903 and three in 1908. 



Sheld-Duck {Tadorna tadorna). — ^A male was seen at 

 Potterne in the winter of 1897 {W.A.<Sh N.H., XXIX, p. 197). 



