. Twenty-five photographs (printed in platinotype) . The Common Buzzard (Buteo vulgaris ) LEACH. (JT^HIS noble species has of late years become very scarce, and is only occasionallymet with in our district. The specimen, an exceptionally fine female, measuring thirty-six inches inexpanse of wing, was killed on the Eaton Estate, and presented by His GraceThe Duke of Westminster, The bird is represented carrying off a nearlyfull-grown rat. The rockwork is a reproduction of the local Trias or Red-sandstone, andis chiefly modelled in papier-mache.

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Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectbirds, bookyear1895