FALCONID. 339 
THE HONEY-BUZZARD. 
PERNIS APivorus (Linneus). 
The Honey-Buzzard is an annual summer-visitor to those wooded 
districts of Europe which lie between 43° N. lat. and the Arctic 
circle, and a limited number pass as far west as Great Britain in 
May and June; while the fact that some nested with us has 
been known since the days of Willughby. On the return-passage 
in autumn, examples, mostly young, have been obtained in England 
up to the latter part of November, as well as on the east coast of ° 
Scotland. To Wales this species rarely wanders, but it has bred 
several times as far west as Herefordshire, and its nests have been 
found at intervals in varidus counties, from Hampshire up to 
Aberdeenshire and East Ross-shire. About 1860 it became known 
that several pairs annually resorted to the New Forest; £5 soon 
became the standard price which collectors of ‘ British’ specimens 
were willing to pay for a couple of well-marked eggs; and nearly 
440 were given for a pair of old birds with their nestlings. By 
about 1870 most of the birds had been killed ; and it is with difficulty 
that the few which still visit us are preserved. In the Shetlands the 
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