190 Zoological Miscellanea and Extracts, by James Haidy. 



hovering above him. He shot it, and found it to be an Eagle. 

 As reported it was taken to be a Golden Eagle, but it proves to 

 be an Erne. Through the interposition of Sir Hugh Hume 

 Campbell, Bart., it was procured for the Berwick Museum. Two 

 other Eagles had about the same period frequented that neigh- 

 bourhood. Again, on the 17th March, a noble specimen of the 

 Erne was shot by the Earl of Ravens worth's gamekeeper, in a 

 pine wood upon Thrunton Moor, near Whittingham, Northum- 

 berland. Its weight was 9 lbs., and the expanse of the wings 

 from tip to tip was 6 feet 7 inches. 



Common Buzzard (Buteo vulgaris). — A Buzzard (Common) was 

 shot at West Thirston, near Felton, on May, 1876, by John 

 Crisp, watcher to Mr Eiddell, of Eelton Park. It was preserved 

 by Wm. Dobson, of Thirston, and is now in the possession of 

 Andrew Smith, of "West Thirston. A Common Buzzard was shot 

 at Longhoughton Low Stead, on 16th September, 1876, by Mr 

 Grey, the tenant of the farm, and has been preserved by Mr 

 Dixon Burnett, of Alnwick, in whose shop it may at present be 

 seen.— E. G. Bolam, Weetwood Hall, 7th Nov., 1876. 



Rough-legged Buzzard (Buteo lagopus.) — Mr Thomas Elliott, 

 gamekeeper at Lilburn Tower, writes of date 13th Nov., 1876, 

 " Two beautiful Rough-legged Buzzards have been trapped on 

 Ilderton Moor, by James Gibson, rabbit-catcher. One was 

 caught on Tuesday, the 7th of this month ; the other on the 30th 

 October. They are supposed to be male and female. The birds 

 are both stuffed by James .Gibson. Another has been seen since 

 on Ilderton Moor." Again of date, Feb. 25, 1877, he says, 

 " Five Rough-legged Buzzards have been caught at Ilderton 

 lately." On the 29th Dec, 1876, being at Weetwood Hall, I 

 had much pleasure in seeing one pass, in calm orderly flight, at 

 a considerable height. The Wood-pigeons from the fields with- 

 in a considerable area, where they were feeding on the turnip 

 foliage, gathered in pursuit of it, but it appeared to pay no re- 

 gard. It is said that it cannot resist a rabbit bait. 



Honey Buzzard (Pernis apivorus). — A very fine example was 

 shot on the 29th May, 1876, by one of the keepers on the Dun- 

 glass estate, in Penmanshiel wood. His attention was called to 

 it, by the persecution it met with from the Carrion Crows, of 

 which about twenty attacked it, while it was perched on the top 

 of a tree, whence it sallied forth on its sable tormentors, which 



