THE BUZZARD. 
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by this buzzard, whose entire “ thighs ” (tibiae) became immersed 
in the water. It remained thus a considerable time, the spectators 
conjecturing that the object was to drown the jackdaw ; which, at 
all events, was done. When this buzzard was stationary on its 
perch, the smaller hawks, in passing, often struck it. A buzzard 
from Glenarm Park has come under my notice : at the range of 
inland rocks called Salagh Braes, and in the cliffs at the Knockagh 
mountain, near Carrickfergus, pairs lately bred. The species has 
often been captured at the last locality in fox-traps baited with 
rabbits, — the trap being concealed from view by mosses shaken 
over it. From the county of Antrim localities, noticed in this 
paragraph, with the addition of Macgilligan in the preceding one, 
it would appear that the buzzard frequents, for nesting, the inland 
range of basaltic cliffs throughout the north-east of Ireland, 
wherever it is permitted undisturbed to rear its young. Some of 
the places named are certainly very near the sea, but none rise 
precipitously above it. In the finely-wooded park at Shane’s 
Castle (Antrim), I have, at the end of July, heard the young 
calling from their nest in a large tree. 
In the adjoining county of Down, the finely wooded demesnes 
are the buzzard’s chief abode. Specimens from Belvoir Park and 
Hillsborough Park (several from hence), have come under my 
observation. The gamekeeper at Tollymore Park states, that they 
are not unfrequently killed in that neighbourhood, where they are 
known by the names of kite and glead. 
Mr. B. Davis, jun., remarked, in 1841, that he had never 
known the buzzard to be obtained about Clonmel (Tipperary). 
It is uncommon in Wexford,* but not so in the neighbourhood 
of Waterford t and Youghal (Cork) ; J it was never met with by 
Mr. Neligan in Kerry. A native specimen of this bird which 
came under my examination, had a few feathers half an inch in 
length about the middle of one of the tarsi, which was bare for 
nine lines above them. 
The buzzard is common about Aberarder, in Inverness-shire, 
where it is said to breed in the rocks, though wood, of which little, 
* Mr. R. Davis. f Mr. J. Poole. t Mr. R. Ball 
