THE COMMON BUZZARD. 
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its occurrence in Shetland, so far as can be ascertained. In 
Thomas Edmondston’s list he asserts that it is ''resident, hut 
not comnion,” and that " a few pairs Im^ed in the higher cliffs,” 
but in a MS. note he owns that he has been misled. Messrs 
Baikie and Heddle do not include it in the Orkney list, but 
merely allude to its mention by Dr Laurence Edmondston as 
" annually migratory” in Shetland, a statement in which there 
is evidently some misapprehension. 
THE HONEY BUZZAKD. 
Pernis apivorus. 
Among the many scarce and unlooked-for birds which have 
been procured at Skaw, the northernmost extremity of Unst, 
the Honey Buzzard claims a place, an individual having been 
killed there and brought to me in the winter of 1862. I saw 
the moth-eaten skin of another which had been shot at 
Burravoe, in Yell, two years previously. No other instances 
have been placed on record, and I cannot ascertain that it is 
included in any list of Orkney or Shetland birds. 
THE MARSH HARRIER. 
Circus ceruginosus. 
In these islands, as in Orkney, the Marsh Harrier is a rare 
species, never having been known to breed in either group. It 
appears at very uncertain intervals, and does not remain long- 
in one district. My own observations, so far as they go, 
confirm Mr Gray’s opinion that most of the Scottish examples 
are birds of the first and second year’s plumage. Under the 
name of " Moor Buzzard,” Dr L. Edmondston gives it a place 
in his list of regular migrants. 
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