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FALCONIDiE. 
and remained about the place for weeks after its supposed partner's 
death. This species has occasionally bred in England. On the 
7th of June, 1839, an adult male was shot on the county of An- 
trim strand of Belfast bay, and purchased by Bichard Langtry, 
Esq. The food in its stomach consisted of coleopterous insects 
only. A specimen of the honey buzzard was sent in a recent 
state from Gorey, county of Wexford, in the summer or autumn 
of 1841, to Mr. Glennon, bird-preserver, Dublin.* 
Mr. Selby, in the Berwickshire Club Beport for 1836, p. 109, 
gives a very interesting account of one of these birds, which was 
observed and trapped in his demesne at Twizel, Northumber- 
land. 
THE MABSH HABBIEB. 
Moor Buzzard. 
Circus ceruginosus, Linn, (sp .) — Circus rufus , Gmel. (sp.) 
* Falco „ ,, Falco ,, }i 
Is found in suitable localities over the island, and is 
resident. 
This species appears, as from the nature of the country might 
be expected, of more frequent occurrence in Ireland than in 
Scotland. Sir William Jardine informs us that in the latter 
country, it is “rare generally," and “would also seem to be 
partially migratory ."f Mr. Macgillivray observes, that it “ must 
be very rare in the northern and middle divisions" of Scotland, 
and that “ none of the bird-stuffers in Edinburgh have had a 
specimen for at least five years back."{ (1840.) Specimens have 
not very unfrequently come under my inspection at the bird-pre- 
servers' in Belfast. I have, in the course of the last fifteen years, 
known about twenty of them to be killed in Antrim and Down, 
within the same number of miles from Belfast. They were ob- 
tained at all seasons except summer, and chiefly in the low 
grounds. The last marsh harriers that came under my notice, 
were an adult pair, which were shot close to the Main- water, at 
* Mr. T. W. Warren, + Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 239. 
X Brit. Birds, vol. iii. p. 385. 
