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by this buzzard, whose entire " thighs " (tibia?) became immersed 

 in the water. It remained thus a considerable time, the spectators 

 conjecturing that the object was to drown the jackdaw ; which, at 

 all events, was done. When this buzzard was stationary on its 

 perch, the smaller hawks, in passing, often struck it. A buzzard 

 from Glenarm Park has come under my notice : at the range of 

 inland rocks called Salagh Braes, and in the cliffs at the Knockagh 

 mountain, near Carrickfergus, pairs lately bred. The species has 

 often been captured at the last locality in fox-traps baited with 

 rabbits, — the trap being concealed from view by mosses shaken 

 over it. From the county of Antrim localities, noticed in this 

 paragraph, with the addition of Macgilligan in the preceding one, 

 it would appear that the buzzard frequents, for nesting, the inland 

 range of basaltic cliffs throughout the north-east of Ireland, 

 wherever it is permitted undisturbed to rear its young. Some of 

 the places named are certainly very near the sea, but none rise 

 precipitously above it. In the finely-wooded park at Shjane's 

 Castle (Antrim), I have, at the end of July, heard the young 

 calling from their nest in a large tree. 



In the adjoining county of Down, the finely wooded demesnes 

 are the buzzard's chief abode. Specimens from Belvoir Park and 

 Hillsborough Park (several from hence), have come under my 

 observation. The gamekeeper at Tollymore Park states, that they 

 are not unfrequently killed in that neighbourhood, where they are 

 known by the names of kite and glead. 



Mr. R. Davis, jun., remarked, in 1841, that he had never 

 known the buzzard to be obtained about Clonmel (Tipperary). 

 It is uncommon in Wexford,* but not so in the neighbourhood 

 of Waterford t and Youghal (Cork) ; J it was never met with by 

 Mr. Neligan in Kerry. A native specimen of this bird which 

 came under my examination, had a few feathers half an inch in 

 length about the middle of one of the tarsi, which was bare for 

 nine lines above them. 



The buzzard is common about Aberarder, in Inverness-shire, 

 where it is said to breed in the rocks, though wood, of which little, 

 * Mr. R. Davis. f Mr. J. Poole. J Mr. R. Ball. 



