194 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH INLAND BIRDS 
complaining whistle or mew. About the middle 
of April it builds a bulky nest of sticks, lined with 
wool, leaves and dry herbage ; generally nowadays 
this is placed on some ledge or in some crevice of 
the rock, but it is also found in trees. When built 
on a rocky slope it is by no means always in a very 
inaccessible situation. Three or four eggs are laid, 
of large size and much rounded in shape. They 
are dull white in ground-colour, blotched and 
stained with reddish-brown and lilac-grey. The 
markings vary from the bold, rich type of the egg 
illustrated to small flecks and stains on the back- 
ground of dull white. 
ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 
(Buleo lagopus,) 
This fine bird is a winter visitor from Scandi- 
navia and Northern Russia, and is a rarity, though 
what may be described as a tolerably frequent one. 
Its most distinctive feature, on a close inspection, 
lies in its legs being feathered to the toes, like 
the Golden Eagle's, instead of being bare, as in the 
last species and most other birds, below the point 
at which they leave the heavy, sheath-like tufts 
which cover the thighs. It has also a white patch 
on the tail, which may aid its identification on the 
