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Lakeland Eagles. 
BUZZARDS NESTING AT BUTTERMERE. 
Nature lovers will hear with satisfaction that the Lakeland 
buzzards are extending their breeding" range. A party of rock 
climbers detected a nest in the Buttermere Valley, and one of 
them, let down by a rope, found nesting in progress. The 
hope is expressed locally that the police may keep a sharp eye on 
the egg-collecting vandals, as the birds enhance the attractions 
of Lakeland, and their increase is desirable. 
The birds have a great spread of wing, and their beauty 
in flight inspires naturalists with the hope that some day 
Lakeland may be converted into a miniature British Yellowstone 
Park, in which the indigenous fauna is carefully preserved. 
Although still styled the common buzzard, it is nowadays one of 
the most uncommon birds in Great Britain. As a rat destroyer 
it is a good friend to the farmer and merits protection. 
Lakelanders always speak of " buzzard hawks," but tourists, 
seeing them on motionless pinion high in the air, frequently 
call them " eagles." 
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Booh Notices and Reviews. 
HANDLIST of the BIRDS OF EGYPT, by M. J. NicoH. 
F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Assistant Director Zoological Service. 
CAIRO, The Government Publications Office, Old Ismalia 
Palace, Sharia Oasr el 'Aini. Price: P.T.15. 
In his introduction the Author tells us that no scientific 
work dealing entirely with the avifauna of Egypt has been 
published since 1872, when the late Capt. G. E. Shelley published 
his Hand-book on the Birds of Egypt. 
In Shelley's Handbook 352 species were given as inhab- 
iting Egypt, but some of these were doubtful and only included 
them on the authority of older writers. 
In the present list Mr. Nicoll enumerates 436 species as 
inhabiting Egypt, commencing with PASSERES and con- 
cluding with STRUTHI ONES. The records are tabulated 
in the following form : 
" I. SONG THRUSH. Tiirdus musicus mnsicus ( Liymceus) 
" 1766. Turdus musicus. Shelley, p. 66, 
