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INTRODUCTION. 
migratory flocks. Its nest is stated to have been once found near Hackness, in Yorkshire, and also in 
the neighbourhood of Banff {vide ‘ Ibis,’ 1865, p. 12). 
Genus Perms. 
Of this form there are two very distinet speeies— one, the P. apivorus, inliabiting Europe, and 
the other the P. cristutus of India. The natural food of both, besides small quadrupeds, birds, 
and garbage, is honey, bees and wasps, and their larvae. 
11. Peunis apivorus Vol. I. PI. VIII. 
Honey-buzzard. 
A summer visitant to us and to Central Europe, which, after breeding, migrates southwards to pass 
the winter. 
Subfamily ASTURIN;E. 
Genus Astub. 
Of this form two species have been regarded as pertaining to the British fauna — namely, the Jstur 
palumharim of Europe, and the A. atricapillus of America. In the present work only the former has 
been figured. 
12. A STUB PALUMBABIUS Vol. I. PI. IX. 
Goshawk. 
Very generally dispersed over Europe, North Africa, India, and China; occasionally killed in Scotland, 
where it sometimes breeds. 
13. Astub atbicapillus. 
American Goshawk. 
This American wanderer has certainly been killed at least three times in the British Islands — once 
in Scotland and twice in Ireland. Respecting the first of these examples, Mr. R. Gray, in his recently 
published ‘ Birds of the West of Scotland,’ says : — 
“In May 1869, when visiting the town of Brechin, in Forfarshire, I was fortunate in finding a very 
