. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . he adds, En fauconnerie, le mot mouchet sapplique a male seulement. 314 THE SPARROW-HAWK. short distance its flight is rapid in the extreme, and it willtake Partridges, Magpies, Landrails, Water Hens, and othersmaller quarry, in a manner by no means inferior to someof the Falcons. It gets sooner upon the wing, or darts offthe first with more rapidity than the Falcons, and is there-fore better suited fo
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . he adds, En fauconnerie, le mot mouchet sapplique a male seulement. 314 THE SPARROW-HAWK. short distance its flight is rapid in the extreme, and it willtake Partridges, Magpies, Landrails, Water Hens, and othersmaller quarry, in a manner by no means inferior to someof the Falcons. It gets sooner upon the wing, or darts offthe first with more rapidity than the Falcons, and is there-fore better suited for bush-hawking, ^ The nest, which is constructed of sticks and slender twigslike that of a Wood Pigeon, but larger, is generally found ina plantation, and usually in a Scotch, or spruce fir. Some-times, however, the eggs, four or five in number, bluishwhite, blotched with reddish brown, are deposited in thedeserted nest of a Magpie or Crow. The old HeronryWood at Paxton is a favourite resort of this Hawk, andhere its eyry has been frequently found in some of the tallScotch firs, one being discovered, with four young, in June1886. 1 Falconry, by J. C. Belany, 1841, p. ACCIPITRES. ( 315 ) FALCONIDAi. THE HONEY BUZZARD. BROWN BEE-HAWK, CAPPED BUZZARD. Pernis apivorus. Some haggard Hawk who had her eyry pounced to fasten, and well wingd to fly,One they might trust their comtnon wrongs to Musquet and the Coystrel were too weak ;Too fierce the Falcon ; but above the rest,The noble Buzzard ever pleased me best ;Of small renow?i tis true, for, not to lie,We call him but a Hawk by courtesy. Dryden, Hind and Panther. The Honey Buzzard is a rare visitor to Eobert Gray mentions that three or four specimenswere shot in this county in June 1845, where the speciesagain reappeared in one or two instances in 1863-64 \^ and,according to Mr. Andrew Brotherston, one was obtained atNewton Don on the 22nd of May Mr. Hardy writesthat— A very fine ex
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