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obtained a single female Merlin, which was found dead. 

 Again in 1875 he observed a Merlin on the marshes. On 

 February 4, he says : " I saw a magnificent old male 

 Merlin here (Cobham)." It is included in the Birds of 

 Higham, by the Kev. C. H. Fielding. 



A female was obtained in the Orlestone district, March 

 10, 1902, and another female in 1906. A male merlin 

 was taken alive at Ivychurch, on December 28, 1906, by 

 Mr. E. G. Rogers. This bird was bhnd with both eyes. 



Genus TINNUNCULUS, Vieillot. 



EED-FOOTED FALCON. 



Tinnunculus vespertinus (Linn^us). S.N., i., 

 p. 129 (1766). 



There appears to be only one authentic instance of the 

 occurrence of the Eed-footed Falcon in Kent, which is 

 recorded in the Zoologist, 1862, by Mr. W. Oxenden 

 Hammond, of St. Alban's Court, Wingham, Kent : " An 

 adult female of the Orange-legged Hobby was killed at 

 Sandling Park, near Hythe, in the early part of this 

 summer. I saw the bird soon after, but as I beheve its 

 occurrence in this instance has not been recorded, I 

 asked permission to notify it." 



In the Zoologist, 1871, Lord Clifton gives a long 

 account of a supposed pair of Orange-legged Hobbies 

 which he saw at Cobham in August, 1869. 



