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than half a mile from the town. Mr. W. B. Young, on 

 whose property it was shot, informed me that another was 

 seen the same day, and, a week or so afterwards^ three more." 

 Professor Newton, calling my attention to Markwick's 

 observation (Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. iv. p. 13), remarks that 

 the hirds which pursued the Rooks in Denne Park could 

 hardly have been Moor Buzzards, which do not frequent 

 high trees. They were much more likely to have been 

 Falcons. 



ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 



Buteo lagopus. 



A BIRD of this species was taken in a trap in Ashburnham 

 Park, January 1837, and preserved for Mr. Watts of Battle. 

 About the end of October 1839, one was shot near Chichester, 

 and sent to me by the late Mr. F. E. Freeland, of that city. 

 In November 1839 two specimens were shot, and two others 

 taken in traps, near Clayton. Two of these I afterwards 

 saw stuffed. On September 16, 1841, a Rough-legged 

 Buzzard was shot by me at Henfield, while in the act of 

 carrying off a partridge, but it was stopped by the second 

 barrel. 



In O. R. (p. 185) it is stated that this species is not so 

 rare as the preceding, that a sprinkling of these birds is 

 always found in very hard weather, either near the inlets of 

 the sea south of Chichester, the marshy tracts of meadow 

 land near the mouths of the navigable rivers, on Amberley 

 flats, or on Lewes levels, and that an example was trapped at 

 Bosham in January 1839, which was disturbed in the act of 

 devouring a rabbit which it had just killed. A fragment of 

 its prey being used as a bait, the poacher was secured on the 

 following morning. That author also says that he, during 



