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One taken in Bramshaw Wood, July 2ncl, 1864, by 
Cooper; and another taken in the New Forest in June, 
1856, had been sent to Mr. Harting ; the latter specimen 
has this remark — " Two eggs, one broken by boy in getting 
down from tree, — visited the tree and saw the remains of 
the nest, August 4th, 1856." 
Mr. Harting in his " Handbook of British Birds " says 
he has seen eggs of the honey-buzzard from the New 
Forest taken at the following places and dates : — Two, 
South Bradley, 3rd June, 1870; two Crookley Enclosure, 
7th June, 1871 ; and two, Stoney Cross, 17th June, 1872, 
besides others taken in previous years. 
The young were hatched there as lately as 1895." 
Mr. W. H. Turle has a specimen in his collection from 
the New Forest, dated i860. 
The above records go to prove what Mr. Meade- Waldo 
in the " Victoria History of Hants " says, that " The 
principal war of extermination was between the years 
i860 and 1870. But in the year 1880, when the Hon. 
Gerald Lascelles became Deputy Surveyor, a different state 
of affairs commenced, and all that could be done was done 
to preserve the honey buzzard, and the remainder of the 
interesting inhabitants of the forest ; for this particular 
bird it seems to have been too late, and I do not know 
myself of a single authentic case of its having bred since 
that date. I have carefully looked out for it year after 
year, and though 1 have pretty frequently seen individuals, 
I have never but once seen one that made me think 
that there might possibly have been a nest, and that was 
in July, 1895, when on several occasions I saw one 
frequenting the same part of the Forest, which invariably 
took the same flight 
A female that had bred was shot in Brockenhurst 
