MONTAGU’S HARRIER IN SURREY. 309 
Harrier in a pole-trap just over my boundary with one leg shat- 
tered. This I spliced with a quill-toothpick and a thin strip of 
my pocket-handkerchief, holding the bird between my knees and 
keeping the rest of the handkerchief over its head. The bird flew 
away gaily, and I threw the trap to the bottom of a pond. The 
birds shot by my keeper last year were an adult female Hen-Harrier 
in April and a young Montagu in August. I heard of a third 
bird being killed in the neighbourhood, but do not know whether 
it was young or old, or of which kind, as the keeper promptly 
buried it or sold it, and did not know himself what it was. It 

Nest AND Eeas oF Montacu’s HaRrRIER. 
was after the decease of this third bird that there were three 
constantly about, which either I or my keeper could easily have 
killed.” 
In another letter he says :—‘‘ The Marsh-Harrier is scarce, 
and I only saw one about here this year, but I can see Hen- or 
Montagu’s Harriers any day.” 
All this seems to show that Harriers would undoubtedly re- 
establish themselves in England if they were left unmolested. 
During the second week of June this summer another nest of 
