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1901.— May 12th. Two feeding on the flat. 20th. One bird 

 on lawn. 



1902.— May 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th. Several birds seen. 



1903.— May 17th. Ten birds feeding on marshy flat. 18th. Five 

 seen in garden. 



1904. — May 10th. Six birds, but only stayed a few hours. 13th. 

 One solitary bird seen. 



1905.— April 29th. Five birds, remained till May 4th. May 3rd. 

 Eight birds seen, but went next morning. 



1906. — May 1st. Two birds seen, but left shortly after. 5th. Six 

 appeared, but did not remain. 9th. Four birds arrived. 10th. 

 Five seen. 



1907. — None were seen this season, but some may have arrived 

 and departed unseen. 



1908. — May 6th. Eight birds seen. 7th. Ten observed near 

 garden. 



1909. — April 25th. One bird seen. 26th. A flock of ten arrived, 

 and remained for a week. — Eobeet Warren (Ardnaree, Monkstown, 

 Co. Cork). 



Breeding of the Honey-Buzzard in England. — " I found the Honey- 

 Buzzard's egg on June 8th, 1867, in Penyard Wood, Weston-under- 

 Penyard, Herefordshire. The birds had taken possession of an old 

 nest of Common Buzzard in an oak about forty feet from the ground, 

 and had re-lined it with green oak-leaves. About eight days after 

 finding the nest I climbed to within about a yard of it before the 

 bird flew from it ; thinking it was empty, I was on the point of 

 leaving it when I caught sight between the oak-leaves of a small 

 piece of the blood-red egg, about the size of a sixpence. The bird had 

 evidently plucked off a sprig of oak-leaves to cover the egg with 

 before leaving the nest. As the nest-tree was within about forty 

 yards of a road, and the next day was Sunday when the wood was 

 much frequented by town boys, I hastened home and painted a hen's 

 egg, which I substituted for the Honey-Buzzard's egg. . . . On 

 Monday morning I . . . found the broken hen's egg and the inside 

 of the nest at the foot of the nest-tree. . . . The egg is creamy, 

 marked with red and blotched heavily at both ends with very 

 dark red, almost black. The same year, in August, the Honey- 

 Buzzards re-lined an old nest of Buzzard, about a mile from the first 

 nest in the same wood. But though I climbed to it many times, I 

 never found any eggs in it. The next year (1868) I was unfortunate 

 in disturbing the Honey-Buzzard from an old nest of Buzzard which 



