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Identifier: britishbirds00huds (find matches)
Title: British birds
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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in Scotland down to the beginning of thepresent century. In form, colouring, and manner of preying itresembles the sparrow-hawk, but is nearly double the size of thatbird, and flies at very much larger game. The American goshawk has been included in the list of Britishbirds on * somewhat slight evidence, as the author of the * Manualof British Birds says. The black kite (Milvus nigram.s) is anAfrican species, a summer visitant to Europe south of the Baltic,ftnd has once been obtained in Great Britain. The swallow-taUed HONEY-BUZZABD 217 kite (Ela/noides furcatus), an American species, which I once hadthe pleasure of seeing (not in a glass case, but sitting on a tree, andsoaring in the air), has also been found as a straggler in thiscountry. The honey-buzzard (Pernis apivorus) is a third speciesof hawk in this list which has disappeared from this country. Likethe hobby and the osprey, it is (or was) a summer visitant, and hasbeen known to breed in most EngUsh and Scottish counties from
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Fig. 73.—Honey-Buzzard. i natural size. Hampshire to Aberdeenshire. Up to within four or live years agoa few pairs continued to return to us each summer, but these, too,have now vanished. This fine large hawk, in size the equal of thecommon buzzard, lived almost entirely on insect food, wasps andwild bees especially—hence its name of honey-buzzard. The remaining species to be noticed are all true falcons: thegyrfalcon (Hierofalco gyrfalco), an inhabitant of arctic Scandinavia,only once obtained in this country; the Greenland falcon (Hiero-falco candicans), a wanderer to this coimtry from north-westAmerica and Greenland ; the Iceland falcon (Hierofalco islandicus),a wanderer from Iceland; the red-footed falcon (Tinnimculusvespertinus), an occasional visitor from the warm countries ofEurope; and the lesser kestrel (Tinnunculua cenchris), a visitorfrom southern Europe, where it breeds. 218 BBITISH BIBDS Cormorant.Phalacrocorax carbo.

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