EOUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 



BUTEO LAGOPUS [J. F. Gmelin). 



Falco lagopus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 260 (1788) ; Naum. i. 



p. 359. 

 Buteo lagopus, Macg. iii. p. 193; Hewitson, i. p. 39; Yarr. 



ed. 4, i. p. 115. 

 Archibuteo lagopus. Dresser, v. p. 471. 



Archibuse pattue, French ; Rauchfuss-Bussard, German. 



This is a species about which I am unable to give any 

 information from personal observation of its habits in a 

 wild state, as I have not seen more than perhaps four or 

 five individuals at various times sweeping over the open 

 country of West Norfolk in late autumn and winter. 



The Rough-legged Buzzard breed^s commonly in the 

 north of continental Europe, and is by no means an 

 infrequent autumnal visitor to Great Britain, where it is 

 generally destroyed very soon after its first appearance ; 

 it certainly prefers open to wooded country during its 

 visits, and has a very natural predilection for rabbit- 

 warrens ; otherwise, in general habits, it seems to 

 resemble the Common Buzzard, but it is a larger and 

 much more powerful bird, and may be distinguished 



