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HONEY-BUZZAPJ). 



PERNIS APIVORUS {Linn.). 



Falco apivorus, Linn. S. N.i. p. 130 (1766) ; Nati7n. i. p. 3G7, 



xiii. p. 28. 

 Pernis apivora^ Macg. iii. p. 254. 

 Pernis apivorus, Hewitson, i. p. 40; Yrnr. ed. 4, i. p. 121 ; 



Dresser, vi. p. 3. 



Buse bondree, French ; Wespen-Bussard, German ; AguUa 

 de Moras, Abejero, Abispera, Spanish. 



This bird, wliose common English name should be 

 summarily changed to " Wasp-Buzzard," is locally well 

 known as a summer visitor to the forest-districts of 

 most parts of Europe. My friend Mr. H. E. Dresser, 

 in his grand work ' The Birds of Europe,' records it as 

 breeding in Finland ; it is exceedingly common on 

 passage in Sicily, it occurs in Palestine, and we found 

 it nesting on the frontiers of Santander and Asturias. 

 In this country there are many records of the finding 

 of occupied nests of the Honey-Buzzard ; I am glad 

 to be able, on good authority, to add to those 

 recorded in the 4th ed. of ' Yarrell,' two instances 

 in the county of Bucks ; and I have every reason to 

 believe that if unmolested these birds would breed in 

 some abundance throughout our British woodlands. In 



