ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 89 
of Zoology and Botany, mentions three or four instances 
of the occurrence of the Rough-legged Buzzard in that 
country; and Sir William Jardine mentions several that 
have been killed in Hast Lothian and other southern dis- 
tricts of Scotland. 
This species appears to inhabit Scandinavia, Lapland, 
Russia, and from thence southward is distribruted over 
the European continent to the shores and islands of the 
Mediterranean. It has been taken at Madeira. Le Vail- 
lant found it in considerable numbers frequenting the 
wooded portions of the district of Auteniquoi in Africa; 
and Dr. Andrew Smith has recorded its occurrence as 
far south as the Cape of Good Hope. 
The Rough-legged Buzzard is well known in the United 
States. Mr. Audubon has seen it as far south as the east- 
ern portion of North Carolina, from whence, he says, it goes 
northward to breed in March; observing also that it is more 
nocturnal in its habits than any other Hawk in the same 
locality. Dr. Richardson, in his Zoology of North America, 
says this species advances, east of the Rocky Mountains, as 
high as the 68th parallel. ‘It arrives in the fur countries 
in April or May, and having reared its young, retires 
- southward early in October. It winters on the banks of 
the Delaware and Schuylkill, returning to the north again 
in the spring. It is by no means an uncommon bird in 
the districts through which the expedition (under Sir 
John Franklin) travelled; but bemg very shy, only one 
specimen was procured. A pair were seen at their nests 
built of sticks, on a lofty tree, standing on a low moist 
alluvial point of land. They sailed round the spot in a 
wide circle, occasionally settling on the top of a tree, but 
were too wary to allow us to come within gun-shot. In 
the softness and fulness of its plumage, its feathered legs, 
