152 THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE, 
Mr. Corbin informs us of one obtained near Ringwood 
in December, 1884. 
In the " Zoologist " of 1892, Mr. Sutton Davies tells the 
story of a specimen which he found caught in a trap 
on a rabbit warren near Winchester, on March 13th. He 
had reason to think that the bird had frequented the 
warren since the previous November. He released the 
bird, and bandaged its leg, and kept it for some time 
in captivity. It measured forty-eight inches across the 
wings and twenty-one inches in length of body, from 
which dimensions, as compared with those in Yarrell, 
he supposed it to be a young male. 
Mr. Corbin, in the "Zoologist" of 1898, writes as 
follows, from Ringwood — " In January, 1897, a specimen 
of Buteo lagopus was killed not far from the Avon in this 
neighbourhood .... The bird was a noble specimen, 
though badly shot, and to a person not familiar with the 
species, its soft owl-like plumage appeared peculiar 
The specimen in question had been feeding upon a rat. 
. . . . I had seen the species but twice before, in 1884 and 
again in 1 894 ; but, if I recollect rightly, the present 
specimen had much more white about it than either of the 
former, and was, I imagine, an older bird." 
There is also a specimen in the Heron Court 
collection. 
Genus— 
131. Aquila clanga. Spotted Eagle. 
A very rare accidental visitor. 
The only example which has occurred within our 
