﻿BIRDS. 
  

  

  47 
  

  

  Dr. 
  J. 
  O. 
  Wilson 
  saw 
  a 
  Buzzard 
  (sp. 
  ?) 
  flying 
  about 
  the 
  

   Craigs 
  of 
  Succoth 
  some 
  time 
  ago, 
  about 
  twelve 
  years 
  previous 
  to 
  

   1888, 
  or 
  say 
  about 
  1876. 
  One 
  also 
  which 
  was 
  shot 
  at 
  Meleath 
  

   has 
  been 
  stuffed, 
  and 
  is 
  in 
  the 
  farm-house 
  of 
  Broadlands, 
  near 
  

   the 
  Binn 
  Hill. 
  In 
  1887 
  one 
  was 
  reported 
  to 
  us 
  by 
  Mr. 
  R. 
  Thom- 
  

   son 
  as 
  having 
  been 
  caught 
  in 
  a 
  trap 
  on 
  an 
  island 
  in 
  the 
  bed 
  of 
  the 
  

   river 
  Findhorn, 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  now 
  in 
  Glenferness 
  House 
  (1st 
  March 
  

   1887). 
  

  

  The 
  Common 
  Buzzard 
  still 
  appears 
  to 
  breed 
  in 
  the 
  neighbour- 
  

   hood 
  of 
  Foyers, 
  judging 
  from 
  notes 
  sent 
  us 
  by 
  Mr. 
  J. 
  Chisholm, 
  

   keeper 
  there. 
  It 
  has 
  been, 
  however, 
  always 
  a 
  more 
  abundant 
  

   species 
  in 
  the 
  west 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  east 
  of 
  Scotland, 
  according 
  to 
  our 
  

   experience. 
  

  

  Archibuteo 
  lagopus 
  (G-mel). 
  Rough-legged 
  Buzzard. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  north 
  of 
  our 
  area 
  the 
  Rough-legged 
  Buzzard 
  is 
  a 
  rare 
  visiter)', 
  as 
  

   we 
  have 
  recorded 
  in 
  the 
  Fauna 
  of 
  Sutherland 
  and 
  Caithness, 
  p. 
  166, 
  

   and 
  since 
  that 
  volume 
  was 
  published 
  we 
  have 
  only 
  heard 
  of 
  one 
  

   other 
  occurrence 
  in 
  the 
  Sutherland 
  district, 
  which 
  was 
  recorded 
  

   in 
  the 
  Inverness 
  Courier 
  of 
  February 
  8th, 
  1889. 
  

  

  They 
  would 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  very 
  rare 
  anywhere 
  north 
  of 
  Inver 
  

   ness, 
  as 
  we 
  do 
  not 
  remember 
  having 
  seen 
  any 
  in 
  Macleay's 
  shop 
  

   which 
  had 
  been 
  sent 
  in 
  for 
  preservation 
  ; 
  but, 
  as 
  stated 
  in 
  a 
  previous 
  

   volume, 
  the 
  Rough-legged 
  Buzzard 
  is 
  found 
  to 
  occur 
  not 
  infre- 
  

   quently 
  at 
  Ousdale 
  and 
  other 
  localities 
  in 
  Caithness. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Chisholm, 
  Foyers, 
  tells 
  us 
  that 
  the 
  Rough-legged 
  Buzzard 
  

   arrives 
  there 
  about 
  September 
  (?), 
  and 
  that 
  they 
  disappear 
  in 
  the 
  

   spring. 
  

  

  St. 
  John, 
  in 
  his 
  Natural 
  History 
  of 
  Moray, 
  says 
  he 
  never 
  

   saw 
  but 
  one, 
  which, 
  he 
  thinks, 
  was 
  killed 
  in 
  Inverness-shire. 
  

   Edward 
  received 
  one 
  or 
  two 
  specimens 
  from 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  

   of 
  Banff, 
  and 
  says 
  its 
  nest 
  has 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  neighbour- 
  

   hood, 
  though 
  rarely 
  (!). 
  None 
  have 
  been 
  sent 
  in 
  from 
  our 
  

   district 
  to 
  Macleay 
  of 
  Inverness 
  for 
  preservation 
  for 
  the 
  last 
  ten 
  

   years. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Gordon 
  mentioned 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  in 
  a 
  collection 
  

   at 
  Nethy 
  Bridge, 
  Speyside, 
  but 
  gives 
  no 
  particulars. 
  

  

  Edward, 
  however, 
  whilst 
  almost 
  undoubtedly 
  wrong 
  about 
  its 
  

  

  