BIRDS OBSERVED IN PURBECK. 61 



A 



SYSTEMATIC CATALOGUE 



OF THE 



Birds of the Isle of Purhedc * 



ORDER I. — RAPTORES, or BIRDS OF PREY. 



3. Cinereous Eagle, Aquila cUbicilla. 



An occasional visitant. A specimen was killed in the 

 neighbourhood of Poole Harbour, in January, 1838; 

 a second about 1844, at Woolgarston; and another 

 at Lul worth. 



6. Peregrine Falcon. Falco peregrinus. 



Is not of unfrequent occurrence. It breeds in the pre- 

 cipitous cliffs of Durleston head, and the south coast 

 of the Island. 



7. Hobby, Fako Svbbuteo, 



A summer visitor. 



8. Merlin, Fako uEsalon. 



A frequent winter visitor. Six specimens were killed 

 at Langton during the last winter. 



10. Kestril, Falco Tinmmculus. 

 Frequent. 



♦ In the above Catalogue, I have adopted the arrangement of the 

 Rev. Leonard Jenyns, in his ♦♦ Manual of the British Vertebrate Animala," 

 published in 1835, to which the numbers refer. 



