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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Park in 1887, and Mr. Hart, of Christchurch, assures me 
that he knew an authentic case of a pair nesting in 1894." 
Mr. Corbin, of Ringwood, purchased a freshly-killed 
specimen from a gipsy in that town in the summer of 
1903, which had been procured in the Forest. 
In the Isle of Wight it has rarely occurred ; Bury, in 
the " Zoologist " for 1 844, says that Mr. Robert Loe once 
disturbed what he supposed to be a common buzzard, 
plundering a wasp's nest, but which is inferred was really 
a honey-buzzard. 
Dr. Cowper, in the " Hants Court Guide," records one 
shot near Sand own b}^ Mr. H. Jacobs while it was in the 
act of plundering a wasp s nest, llie date was October 7th, 
1878. Other occurrences in the county have been noted at 
Titchfield, where one was killed in October, 1888, reported 
by Careless, lately a bird-stuffer at Landport ; and one 
at Wherwell in March, 1879, mentioned in the Report 
of the Winchester College Natural History Society for 
1881. 
Genus — Falco. 
136. Falco peregrimts. Peregrine Falcon. 
" My princess of the cloud, my plumed purveyor, 
My far-eyed queen of the winds — thou that canst soar 
Beyond the morning lark, and howsoe'er 
Thy quarry wind and wheel, swoop down upon him 
Eagle-like, lightning-like-strike, make his feathers 
Glance in mid-heaven." 
Tennyson's " T/ie Falcon^ 
A scarce resident, confined to the fsle of Wight. 
This species is now reduced to one pair nesting annually 
