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me on the 15th of May at Massara, and dug its claws into 
my hand in a way I shall not forget. The second was killed 
three days afterwards at Bibbeh. Several others were seen. 
My father has examined the birds, and has compared one 
of them with the series of Buteo feror in the Norwich 
Museum. He thinks it can always be distinguished from 
that species by its smaller size. The one I shot was 18 
inches long; the wing 14; the tarsus 2.7. The iris was dull 
yellow. In the other specimen it was, according to a note 
by Mr. Hughes, bluish black. On this point see some re- 
marks by my father in Bree’s “Birds of Europe” (I., p. 99). 
The first bird was much the more rufous of the two; the 
thighs in particular were very red. The middle tail feathers 
were so abraded that little was left but the shaft. There 
was already in the Norwich Museum a specimen from 
Rosetta, received from M. Panzudaki of Paris.* 
23. LLONG-LEGGED BUZZARD, Buteo ferox (S. G. Gmelin) ; 
“ Garrah,” i.e. one that wounds. 
The year 1875 was not favourable for the observation of 
this species. We certainly did not see many, and shot 
none. It is said that they are sometimes common. 
%24. HONEY Buzzarb, Pernis apivorus (Linn.). 
A fine adult male was shot by Mr. Russell in a grove at 
Bibbeh, where it may have been nesting, May 2oth. Length 
22 inches; expanse 43. I believe this is the first authentic 
instance of its occurrence in Egypt. 
© Some time ago Mr. Gould lent me a specimen killed at Everley in 
Wiltshire in 1864. From a comparison with nine skins sent up from 
the Norwich Museum, my father was quite satisfied of its being correctly 
named. 
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