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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Mr. Meade-Waldo, writing in 1900,' says, " In 1896 a 
pair hatched and successfully reared two young ones in 
a Scotch fir tree not far from Knightwood enclosure ; 
and it was a great pleasure to any ornithologist to see 
the two old birds with their young floating overhead 
during the month of July. There may have been young 
reared since then, but I am not certain of it. Nests 
have been built every year. I am informed by Mr. Stares 
that a pair of buzzards bred in a wood near Titchfield 
in 1885, and there are records of odd nests from other 
parts of the county within the last ten years." 
Mr. Turner-Turner, of Avon Castle, had a specimen 
taken from a nest in the New Forest, which lived twenty- 
five years in captivity. 
Turning to other parts of the county, we do not 
consider it necessary to record occurrences in autumn and 
winter, which are frequent in all parts of the mainland, and, 
indeed, to the range of downs on the north of the county, 
it is a fairly regular visitor at these seasons. But nests 
and examples seen in the summer are of more interest. 
A pair nested in Doles Wood, near Andover, in 1886 
and 1887. In the second year, Mr. W. H. Turle took two 
fresh eggs on May iith, from an old crow's nest, in an oak 
tree about thirty feet from the ground, but one of the 
old birds was unfortunately shot. 
On June 30th, 1892, Mr. Sutton Davies noticed a big 
hawk, which he supposed to be of this species, skimming 
over the downs near Winchester ; 2 and Mr. G. W. Smith 
records one brought to Mr. Chalkley in the middle of 
July, 1897.3 
^ Victoria History of Hants." 
^"Zoologist." 1894. 
3 Zoologist." 1897. 
