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INTRODUCTION. 
Genus Pandion. 
6. Pandion haliaetus ............ Vol. I. PI. V. 
Osprey. 
Formerly common in Scotland (where its eyry might have been found on most of the ruined castles in the 
neighbourhood of, and on the islands in the lochs), it has now become scarce, and, unless it be protected, 
will soon be extirpated. If, as has been supposed, there is but one species of this form, then it may be said 
to be almost universally distributed over the other parts of the Old World, as it also is in the greater part 
of the New. Lives almost wholly on fish. Is a summer visitant, arriving at its breeding-places in the 
sjiring, and departing southward in autumn. 
Subfamily BUTEONINvE. 
Buzzards are found in nearly every country of the globe. The fauna of Europe comprises three or four 
species, all of which have been killed in Britain ; but of these, one has but slender claims to be enumerated 
amonff the birds of our islands. 
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Genus Buteo. 
7. Buteo vulgaris ............. Vol. I. PI. VI. 
Common Buzzard. 
Formerly very common in many of our counties, it still breeds in some of them, particularly in certain 
parts of Kent. 
8. Buteo desertorum. 
Falco desertorum. Baud. Traite d’Orn. tom. ii. p. 162. 
cirtensis, Levaill. 
mlpmus, Licht. 
eapensis, part., Schleg. 
tachardus, Bree, Birds of Eur. vol. i. p. 97. 
anceps, Brehm. 
Mr. J. Clarke Hawkshavv has favoured me with the skin of a Buzzard which, he tells me, was killed at 
Everley, in Wiltshire, in September 1864. After having made a careful examination of the specimen. 
