. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. FALCONID M—HARRIERS. 163 Mr. Edwards, of Ingrave, has a fine female shot by himself. King, writing in 1838 of the district around Sudbury, says (20), "This is, perhaps, the least uncommon of our larger ; Mr. Clarke notes (24) the occurrence of one at Littlebury, on August ist, 1S23 ; of one at Wenden in 1828, obtained by Mr. Salmon ; and of two at Saffron Walden in 1835, one of which is now in the Museum there. The Rev. M. C. H. Bird mentions one seen on Canvey Island, on Feb. 3Sth, 1882. Specime
. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. FALCONID M—HARRIERS. 163 Mr. Edwards, of Ingrave, has a fine female shot by himself. King, writing in 1838 of the district around Sudbury, says (20), "This is, perhaps, the least uncommon of our larger ; Mr. Clarke notes (24) the occurrence of one at Littlebury, on August ist, 1S23 ; of one at Wenden in 1828, obtained by Mr. Salmon ; and of two at Saffron Walden in 1835, one of which is now in the Museum there. The Rev. M. C. H. Bird mentions one seen on Canvey Island, on Feb. 3Sth, 1882. Specimens, generally birds of the year, are killed occasionally at Tollesbury (Laver). Mr. Hope says it is " not uncommon on the north-eas^ borders of Essex near the ; The Rev. J. C. Atkinson says (36. 37) he used to hear it called "BaldBuzzard " in Essex, and he writes me that in his boyhood, some sixty years ago, it " bred in an old decoy at ToUeshunt D'; Fifty years ago, too, in the Paglesham district, Dr. Laver says (50. iii. 33) : " At the sides of those pieces of water locally known as ' fleets,' the Marsh Harrier would sometimes be found nesting amongst the sedges. * * * I fancy few of these nests escaped destruction : all those I ever heard of were ; Hen Harrier: Circus cyaneiis. Now a rare visitor, though there can be no question that it once bred commonly in Essex, as it still does occasionally in some of the wilder and more remote parts of Great Britain. Graves says (7. iii.) that in his time (1821) it was "not uncommon about the marshes of Kent and Essex, bordering on London," while as lately as the year 1832, Mr. Parsons described it (11) as "frequent on the marshes and along the sea-shore from Shoebury east- ; Albin figures a fine cock which he says (3. iii. 3) " was sent me by my honoured friend Sir Robert Abdy out of ; Mr. Clarke, writing. HEN HARRIER, adult Vtalc, l/lo.
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