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bird in the Zoologist, 1844, p. 440, says: "When I was 

 at Timbridge Wells, some eight or ten years ago, I saw 

 the handsomest specimen I ever did see of this species, 

 in the possession of an amateur bird-stuffer of that place. 

 He informed me that it was killed in Lord Abergavenny's 

 park in the neighbourhood, and that within a few years 

 preceding several specimens had been obtained in the 

 same locality." In the Zoologist, 1844, the Eev. J. Pem- 

 berton Bartlett states that the kite is " rare, a speci- 

 men killed in the parish of Lydd is in Dr. F, Plomley's 

 collection." There is a Kentish specimen in the Exeter 

 Museum, the bequest of the Eev. Bower-Scott. The 

 Kev. C. H. Fielding adds Cobham (1881) ; and a specimen, 

 a female, was obtained at Teston, in Kent, in October, 

 1881, and presented to the Maidstone Museum by Mr. 

 lioger Leigh. 



In the summer of 1885 or 1886, Mr. E. T. Filmer 

 states that for a long time a specimen of this rare bird 

 was seen in or about Bourne Wood. Eventually it was 

 trapped in a wasp's nest by Mr. J. Stickles, when its true 

 nature was recognised. 



Genus HIEROFALCO, Cuvier. 



ICELAND FALCON. 



Hierofalco islandus (Gmelin). fi.N., i., p. 271 

 (1788). 



The only record of the occurrence of this species (?) in 

 Kent is that which is contained in the Eev. J. Pemberton 

 Bartlett's Ornithology of Kent, 1844. He places it under 

 the name of Ger Falcon {Falco islandiciis) , and says it 

 is "rare," without any other particulars. 



