BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
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THE honey-buzzard. Pernis a^^orus (Linn.us). 
A very rare visitor. 
In the Dumfries and Galloway Courier of June 11th 
wJiTtDSlr^' the Honey Buzzard, was shot las^ 
the collection BushnSTr;L S-'^S^^^^^^^ 
re erred to by Macgillivray who deLritit "^'tZ 
to the Roya/Physical o/ Wt^Sf bTD/ tT 
Alexander Smith on January 28th 1857 t R I . n " 
writing in 1871 says: " SpecxCns have ^tluJ^Z 
M SZTk^ ^""^"^^ — ' occasions riTand 
Buzzard T„ k''v T*', T '° «hot a Honey 
^uzzard m Kirkpatrick-Juxta some years before Mr 
from TberdeenT ' ''"^^ ''^^^ 
mo^t'of^hr^'^rf ^ ^'"^^^y distributed throughout 
most ot the wooded districts of Eurone and in jfo • 
* Macgillivray, HisL Brit, Birds, 1840, Vol. III., p. 260 
t Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist, Soc, April 17th, 1901 ' 
t Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, Edvn., 1857, Vol. I., p. 240 
§ Birds of West Scotland, 1871, p. 49. 
II Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1901, p. 81." 
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