APPENDIX. 
In the preparation of this volume a bundle of notes was overlooked. As I 
do not wish it to be thought that this oversight was intentional, I am printing 
some of them in this place. I am not transcribing all, and I wish my friends 
to remember that this is not on account of lack of interest, but simply that the 
same information has already been printed from other sources, and no good 
service would now be rendered by duplication. In the present notes is a series 
of original records prepared by Mr. J. B. White about 1875, and which have 
never been printed before. The birds mentioned were presented to the British 
Museum and reported upon by Dr. B. B. Sharpe before the most interesting 
and valuable notes came to hand. 
Allied Hareier . . . . . . Circus approximans, ante, p. 24. 
The following note from Miss J. A. Fletcher is interesting : • “ These 
birds often build their nests a long time before they are needed. One under 
observation was started on the 4th of October, 1910, and the first egg was 
laid on November 22nd. Several pairs of these birds (under observation), 
after losing their first clutch, would build a fresh nest. Should the second 
lot, however, be destroyed, they invariably returned to the first home and 
re-laid there. The birds carry quite large branches for the foundation of 
their nests, and one nest had a quantity of fencing whe worked in it. They 
are watchful lest intruders venture near the location of their home. One 
day I witnessed a terrific battle between a Swamp Hawk and a Crow or Haven. 
I judged that the Haven had been about to rob the Hawk’s eggs, when she 
flew along and attacked him. Hound and round in circles they flew, every 
now and then making a dash at each other. The Haven appeared tO\get the 
best of the battle and so worried the Hawk that she flew to some bent down 
rushes in the lagoon. Here the two birds sat and eyed one another. Then, 
rising again for a fresh battle, they caught sight of human life on the bank 
and each flew off in separate directions. Harriers often hunt in pairs, and 
when one bird finds a quarry too big or too fast to capture by itself it gives 
a long rather mournful call. The mate immediately responds. One midday, 
whilst sitting eating my lunch on a rising bank not far from a lagoon, I heard 
this call. Presently I saw the two Harriers and noticed they were intent on 
something in the shorter reeds. One would swoop down, then its mate did 
the same, the quarry evidently working towards the edge. Soon after each 
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