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that severe weather, examined four specimens, all of which 

 were secured in the western part of the county, and that 

 others had been shot about the same time near Shoreham 

 and Pevensey, and that it had also occurred at Fahner. In 

 the 'Zoologist/ a female is mentioned (p. 6604) obtained 

 in October 1858, and a male, in March 1859, both near 

 Worthing. It is also stated (p. 8493) that a fine female 

 was trapped near St. Leonards-on-Sea ; and, in the volume for 

 1879, one is recorded (p. 109) as having been shot at Witter- 

 ing in November 1876. It is somewhat remarkable that the 

 adult bird has been so seldom obtained in Britain. Stevenson, 

 in his 'Birds of Norfolk ' (vol. i. p. 30), the county in which 

 probably more examples have been taken than in any other, 

 states that he only knew of four which were in mature dress, 

 and to that number Professor Newton, in ' Yarrell's British 

 Birds ' (vol. p. 118), was only able to add one more; so that it 

 is not too much to say that nntU Wolley sent the adult bird 

 from Lapland, no British ornithologist knew what its plumage 

 was. Since writing the above, I hear from Mr. Jeffery that 

 a Rough-legged Buzzard was shot at Up Park, in the parish 

 of Harting, in August or September 1863. 



HONEY BUZZARD. 



Pernis apivorus. 



This bird is a regular summer visitant, receiving additions 

 in the autumn, and as it sometimes remains very late, it has 

 been suggested that it would probably remain with us during 

 the winter if undisturbed ; but as throughout Europe it is 

 as regular a summer visitant as the Swallow, and its food 

 consists for the most part of insects (wasp-grubs especially), 

 I think it could not exist with us when they could not be 



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