76 faloonid^;. 



however, is aged, abounds there : the gamekeeper's " museum " 

 in 1842, exhibited many victims. I have observed this bird in 

 Holland, Switzerland, and Italy : — what I believed to be it, ap- 

 peared sailing over the gardens of Constantinople, alighting on 

 the trees, evidently without the least fear of injury, and feeling as 

 much at home as the Turk himself. 



Graphic descriptions of the buzzard, from personal observation, 

 are given in the British Birds of Sir William Jardine, vol. i. p. 202 

 and Mr. Macgillivray, vol. hi. p. 190. 



THE EOUGH-LEGGED BUZZAED. 



Buteo lagopus, Brunn. 

 Falco „ Gmel. 



Is only known as an extremely rare visitant. 



About the middle of October, 1831, a bird of this species was 

 taken near Dundonald, in the county of Down, by being knocked 

 on the head with a stick, when gorged. The occurrence was 

 noticed at the time in the Magazine of Natural History, vol. v. 

 p. 578. On dissection, the remains of birds, and of a full-grown 

 rat torn into four pieces, were found in its stomach. It was pur- 

 chased Dr. J. D. Marshall, and is now in the Belfast Museum. 

 This bird accords with Temminck's description of the adult male. 

 It has not any indication of bands on either side of the tail : a 

 band is represented near the tip on the under side, in Mr. Selb/s 

 figure of the female. 



About this time, two others were seen at Killinchy, in the same 

 county, and one of them was shot, but, through ignorance, it was 

 lost as a specimen. In the autumn of 1836, the gamekeeper 

 at Tollymore Park described a bird to me, which evidently had 

 been of this species. It was shot a few year before (probably at 

 the same period as the others) in Castlewellan demesne (Down), 

 when carrying off a young rabbit. 



In May, 1838, I was informed by Mr. Glennon, bird-preserver, 

 Dublin, that a bird of this species (which he accurately described), 

 was killed towards the end of the year 1837 (?) by the gamekeeper 

 at Powerscourt, county of Wicklow. 



