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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
In the meantime, in the year 1802, Montagu had 
discovered a second species of " blue hawk " in Devonshire 
(closely resembling the first in general appearance and 
habits), which is now called " Montagu's harrier " in his 
honour. For a time, no doubt, the name hen-harrier 
was still given indiscriminately by most persons to both 
species alike, and it is only of late years that Montagu's 
harrier has been discovered to be far more common as 
a nesting species in the county than the other, no doubt 
usurping the localities rendered vacant by the decrease 
of the larger species. 
Lord Malmesbury has in his collection at Heron 
Court a fine male specimen killed at Broadlands and 
given to Lord FitzHarris (afterwards the second Earl 
of Malmesbury) in 1812, by the Hon. William Temple. 
Other specimens at Heron Court are a female and two 
young, from the nest, where there were four young ones, 
in a small furze-brake, on the Heron Court estate, and 
these may be possibly some of those referred to in 
the first volume of the Earl of Malmesbury's " Memoirs 
of an Ex-Minister," where we read that the waste-land 
lying along the coast between Christchurch and Poole 
was "a favourite resort and breeding-ground of the 
hen-harrier, a very destructive species of hawk. They 
built their nests under the furze-bushes, and from these 
impenetrable places used to issue forth and plunder the 
cultivated country outside for many miles. There was only 
one way of finding their nests, which our keeper adopted 
in the breeding season. When he saw one crossing the 
valley to hunt the fields and carry off its prey to the 
moprs, he watched it till out of sight, and on the next 
day posted himself at that point. The bird was sure 
to come along the same line, and again the man followed 
