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Genus PAnpIon.

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6. Panpron Ha iaETus : : : : . :
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

spring, and departing southward in autumn.

Subfamily BUTEONINA.

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

among the birds of our islands.

Genus Burro.

7. BuTeo VULGARIS . : : ‘

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Common Buzzarp.

Formerly very common in many of our counties, it still breeds in some of them, particularly in certain

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parts of Kent.
8. Bureo DESERTORUM.

Falco desertorum, Daud. Traité d’Orn. tom. ii. p. 162.
—— cirtensis, Levaill.
—— vulpinus, Licht.
—— capensis, part., Schleg.
—— tachardus, Bree, Birds of Eur. vol. i p97:

—— anceps, Brehm.

M

. J. Clarke Hawkshaw
Clarke Hawkshaw has favoured me with the skin of a Buzzard wl

September 1864. After having

: co uich, he tells me, was killed at
Everley, in W iltshire, in

made a careful examination of the specimen,