. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. i66 THE BIRDS OF ESSEX. trap in 1887. Mr. F. Spalding informs me that a fine female in his possession was killed at St. Osyth ini88i. Mr. T. Aldham, of Ulting, has one shot there by himself about ten years ago. Mr. E. Curtis, jun. writes (29. 29, 188r) : " On January 20th, two Buzzards were seen hawking over the large reed-beds near " the Gulf," between Barking and Rainham. A man named Sutton shot another on the previous day. The Rev. J. C. Atkinson writes (36. 35) : " I well remember as a sc
. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. i66 THE BIRDS OF ESSEX. trap in 1887. Mr. F. Spalding informs me that a fine female in his possession was killed at St. Osyth ini88i. Mr. T. Aldham, of Ulting, has one shot there by himself about ten years ago. Mr. E. Curtis, jun. writes (29. 29, 188r) : " On January 20th, two Buzzards were seen hawking over the large reed-beds near " the Gulf," between Barking and Rainham. A man named Sutton shot another on the previous day. The Rev. J. C. Atkinson writes (36. 35) : " I well remember as a schoolboy [at Kelvedon] in Essex, some thirty odd years ago [about 1830], that the nests of the ' Puttock,' as the Buzzard was in- variabl}' called in that district, were more frequently found by us than those of any other wood-building Hawk ; and many a hatch of young ' Puttocks ' it fell to my lot to see brought withir. the old ; Rough-legged Buzzard : Archibuteo lagopus. A somewhat rare and irregular visitant chiefly during autumn and winter. Mr. Hope writes it is " common on the coast, first arriving at the end of September, but coming in flocks in very cold weather. I once saw twenty-five hawking rabbits over a tract of sand-hills within three miles of Harwich, and obtained three of them. In early autumn tliey seem to come from the east, but in winter from the ; A pair killed man}'years ago at Epping were presented by Henry Doubleday to the British Museum, where they are still preserved (Buxton—47. 81). Mr. Clarke notes (24) the trapping of a fine specimen (presumably the one now in the Museum, presented by S. Salmon) in High Baulk's Wood, Saffron Walden, on iMar. 1st, 1836, and the occurrence of another near Walden in Nov., 1843. There is also a female from Epping presented many years ago by Henry Doubleday. Mr. Clarke also mentions the death of one at Shortgrove on Nov. jrd, 1839. ^Ir. T. Brunton records one (23. 7844) shot by a keeper i
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